Death with Interruptions
“… one could even consider it a minor defect given the chaotic syntax, the absence of full stops, the complete lack of very necessary parentheses, the obsessive elimination of paragraphs, the random use of commas and, most unforgivable sin of all, the intentional and almost diabolical abolition of the capital letter, which, can you imagine, is even omitted from the actual signature of the letter and replaced by a lower-case d.”
~ José Saramago
Abolition of the capital letter! Unforgivable!
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December 5th, 2009 at 6:23 am
: ) You are screwed…. but I love you anyway ; )
December 5th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Glad you are enjoying the books that your readers recommended….
December 5th, 2009 at 11:52 am
I tried SO hard to read his book, “Blindness”… but the style just kept tripping me up, and I only got about a quarter of the way through. The story was great, but reading it was SO DIFFICULT! Gah.
December 5th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Ha! Are you sure you should be reading this book Jen. :)
December 6th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Hey! I recognize that book ;) Enjoy!
December 6th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
don’t worry jen, e e cummings still loves you
December 6th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
wow I gotta get this one now…..I haven’t read any of his books and that’s almost amazing to even me since I read 3 to 4 a week even with all the stupid hours I spend on management theory papers..most recently INNOVATION……and yet I was marked a fifth of a point for being too “creative” Hmmm..creative vs. innovation….I suppose in an Innovation course CREATIVITY doesn’t count. Rat bastage of a blowhard professor. ha!