On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 09:19 pm, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Okay. But, although admittedly there's a lot of threads with a lot of characters near the beginning, by page 100 you almost certainly have _some_ idea of what's going to happen . . .
(Unlike Delaney's _Dhalgren_, where by page 100 most readers have given up and thrown the book away in disgust . . . )
I read that twice (at least) back in 197x and was highly amused. The sf version of Finnegan's Wake or Ulysses. Which makes it better than them...
S P O I L E R
A L E R T
S P O I L E R
A L E R T
And the elevator shaft murder bit was a shocker. And the last sentence in the book leads back into the first for closure :)
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First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.
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