el otonyo del patriarca

even in the midst of a book purging (i finally let go of "the land and people of algeria"), it is not possible to get rid of copies of faulkner or garcia marquez no matter how hard to read they can be or how unlikely it is you will ever read them.

i defied fate and read. if each GM novel matched up to an F novel, this would represent the counterpart to "the sound and the fury" not because of any common theme but because of style. two obvious points to the reader of both: the use of stream of consciousness throughout (each chapter consisted of ~ 3 sentences with not a paragraph break in the entirety) and the use of arbitrarily shifting narrators. each time the story begins to be told from the first person, i (the reader) would think "ah ha!- now i understand who is narrating" only for the book to shift back to a half-conscious third person ramble of thoughts, some of which would repeat from time to time.

i am here

I want to start out by saying that I am currently reading Neil Gaimon's "Smoke and Mirrors" a collection of short stories and "Radical Brewing" by Randy Mosher.

You're Adventures of Huckleberry Finn!

by Mark Twain

With an affinity for floating down the river, you see things in black
and white. The world is strange and new to you and the more you learn about it, the less
it makes sense. You probably speak with an accent and others have a hard time
understanding you and an even harder time taking you seriously. Nevertheless, your
adventurous spirit is admirable. You really like straw hats.


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at the Blue Pyramid.

I just took this quiz. Interestingly enough I just completed re-reading this book about 3 weeks ago.


PS: after reading this article (slate.com) I got down for a while but then i learned to "love the bomb"
PPs: cobalt is such a lovely color.

I was surprised by this. Given these results, I'm interested to know what book Huitzi is.

You're One Hundred Years of Solitude!

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lonely and struggling, you've been around for a very long time.
Conflict has filled most of your life and torn apart nearly everyone you know. Yet there
is something majestic and even epic about your presence in the world. You love life all
the more for having seen its decimation. After all, it takes a village.


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at the Blue Pyramid.

what book am i?

this being a literary blog of sorts, i decided to take this quiz. here are the results, and while i agree that i'm not the societal norm, i don't think i'm a sexual deviant because that is just weird. though i did wear shoes like the one on the book cover in elementary school.

and maybe the other people who participate in this blog could see what book they are. that could be interesting.

You're Lolita!

by Vladimir Nabokov

Considered by most to be depraved and immoral, you are obsessed with
sex. What really tantalizes you is that which deviates from societal standards in every
way, though you admit that this probably isn't the best and you're not sure what causes
this desire. Nonetheless, you've done some pretty nefarious things in your life, and
probably gotten caught for them. The names have been changed, but the problems are real.
Please stay away from children.

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