3.30.2005
Twenty-Second book
Arcade : Gordon Lish
Four Walls Eight Windows : 1998
Bought at Strand Book Store for $5.00+
Started 3.28.05
Finished 3.29.05
The Line: "Oh, beribboned--I really am really a very big fan of, you know, of beribboned. No kidding, all of these be-something words, all of them, all of them--like, you know, like bestride and so forth--I love them, I love them. Hey, I'm just nuts about words" (64).
I saw Gordon Lish
last week. He looked at me like
I was the freak. Me!
¶ 09:23
Arcade : Gordon Lish
Four Walls Eight Windows : 1998
Bought at Strand Book Store for $5.00+
Started 3.28.05
Finished 3.29.05
The Line: "Oh, beribboned--I really am really a very big fan of, you know, of beribboned. No kidding, all of these be-something words, all of them, all of them--like, you know, like bestride and so forth--I love them, I love them. Hey, I'm just nuts about words" (64).
I saw Gordon Lish
last week. He looked at me like
I was the freak. Me!
¶ 09:23
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DM--I'm not sure if you've read other Lish books but this is one of those "disappointing" later efforts by the great madman. I would recommend reading some of his earlier work like Dear Mr. Capote, Peru, and Mourner at the Door. All of those are freakin' great.
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: 3:40 AM
: 3:40 AM
KS--I love Capote and Mourner, but I haven't read Peru yet (I will now). I'm on a Lish kick, and even enjoyed Arcade some, despite its auto-affective (read: masturbatory) ramblings. I really did see him recently, at an Amy Hempel reading, and I really think I scared him more than he me. Surprising.
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