One Hundred Books
4.02.2005
  Twenty-Third Book

As I Lay Dying
: William Faulkner
Vintage : 1990
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $4.50+
Recommended by Scott Pierce

Started 3.30.05
Finished 4.2.05

The Line: "How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-strings: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls" (207).

To do this week: drown
mules, check; amputate leg, check;
bury Mom, uncheck.
 
Comments:
my favorite line was, "My mother is a fish"

-michael
 
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