Les Miserables! Victor Hugo! 829 pages, abridged! Vive la France! and...GO!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Chance Happenings and the Moon
Finished Moon Palace just now. Definitely my favorite of the lot, so far; I'm fond of the preposterousness of chance happenings worked through the plot, with its obvious scatterings of motif a la lune. And a cliffhanger ending too? Come on, cheese factor off the charts, but I'm eating it up.
On a side note, since we all know my obsession with Nathaniel Hawthorne, at one point in the novel (page 144 in this copy to be exact), a minor, untalented writer character is mentioned as the son of the Great. Brownie points for a good shout out with bad irony.
And then on page 122, a few things I had highlighted, as they seemed profound at the time of reading:
"The world enters us through our eyes, but we cannot make sense of it until it descends into our mouths".
and
"More to the point, the same brick was never really the same".
How philosophically artistic.
Finally, the book ends in a full moon behind Fogg. Can I just say that tomorrow is the full moon? At least, according to my new 2011 calendar.
On to further business, I have acquired a handful of new books (thanks to Christmas, and other CHANCE happenings that dropped Les Mis into my fateful hands) from the List to progress my reading for at least another couple months. I will be well-read in no time.
On a side note, since we all know my obsession with Nathaniel Hawthorne, at one point in the novel (page 144 in this copy to be exact), a minor, untalented writer character is mentioned as the son of the Great. Brownie points for a good shout out with bad irony.
And then on page 122, a few things I had highlighted, as they seemed profound at the time of reading:
"The world enters us through our eyes, but we cannot make sense of it until it descends into our mouths".
and
"More to the point, the same brick was never really the same".
How philosophically artistic.
Finally, the book ends in a full moon behind Fogg. Can I just say that tomorrow is the full moon? At least, according to my new 2011 calendar.
On to further business, I have acquired a handful of new books (thanks to Christmas, and other CHANCE happenings that dropped Les Mis into my fateful hands) from the List to progress my reading for at least another couple months. I will be well-read in no time.
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