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i sulked off guiltily to the library this afternoon to check out MacKinley Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Andersonville, which i confess i have never read (ouch) ~ and given that we're venturing into that territory in LookingLand, i thought i really ought to cover all the bases, especially since Kantor's novel is an important work dealing with the subject matter.
i don't know why exactly i have not, up until now, bothered to take it in hand. i know i picked it up once and was repulsed by a rather comical sex scene somewhere in the middle (the details of which i will spare you all). perhaps that encounter soured me on the hope of it being a "serious" work in some way. i am sure this was more than 10 years ago in the library at UT, where i used to hunker down in the aisle and read novels because i was too lazy to check them out (read most of Hemingway on the floor in this manner ~ though in Hemingway's case, it was a fact of disdaining the very idea of attaching his name to my card ~ so silly).
now that i think of it, perhaps that's why my knees are shot. i tend to sit with my legs folded under me ~ and that was literally hours at a time (i would read a whole book sometimes).
i haven't read like that in ages ~ not since the last time i was unemployed and reading two books a week (man, that was a good summer ~ read some great stuff: Bernanos, Cather, O'Nan).
anyway, so now i have the book and i will try to read it this week. i read the first chapter and it will be a bit of work (especially after the ease of style in Montmorency) to get into his rhythm, but i'll manage, i suppose.
expect to hear a report. hopefully it will be a good one.
: D
p.s. weebles really do fall down sometimes ~ if you get the balance just right.
i don't know why exactly i have not, up until now, bothered to take it in hand. i know i picked it up once and was repulsed by a rather comical sex scene somewhere in the middle (the details of which i will spare you all). perhaps that encounter soured me on the hope of it being a "serious" work in some way. i am sure this was more than 10 years ago in the library at UT, where i used to hunker down in the aisle and read novels because i was too lazy to check them out (read most of Hemingway on the floor in this manner ~ though in Hemingway's case, it was a fact of disdaining the very idea of attaching his name to my card ~ so silly).
now that i think of it, perhaps that's why my knees are shot. i tend to sit with my legs folded under me ~ and that was literally hours at a time (i would read a whole book sometimes).
i haven't read like that in ages ~ not since the last time i was unemployed and reading two books a week (man, that was a good summer ~ read some great stuff: Bernanos, Cather, O'Nan).
anyway, so now i have the book and i will try to read it this week. i read the first chapter and it will be a bit of work (especially after the ease of style in Montmorency) to get into his rhythm, but i'll manage, i suppose.
expect to hear a report. hopefully it will be a good one.
: D
p.s. weebles really do fall down sometimes ~ if you get the balance just right.