[lit-ideas] Re: surrealism
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- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:00:12 -0400
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Sent: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 9:06 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: surrealism
<<I always wanted to read Garp, never did. Do you like it? Any comments on
it? >>
I was always afraid to read the book because I loved the movie so much, and
when I see a movie based on a book I invariably end up hating one or the other.
This is different though.. I haven't finished the book (it's one of my "read
a few paragraphs while waiting at the Dr's office or for the elec to come back
on books) but I like it very well. He's wry, dryly witty, and condenses
characters very neatly.
<< So I steeled myself and watched the television show and it was okay, so at
least I can say I watched it. >>
It's okay -- my husband and I are oppositionalists at hear too <g>.
<<I'm tired of making excuses for why I don't read and watch these things. Why
don't they read Morris Berman or Ron Suskind or truthout.org?>>
I do that too. But at some point a person needs a certain level of escapism or
I'd simply run screaming into the night. So I bounce around.
Julie Krueger
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Subject: [lit-ideas] surrealism
I just want to apprise all of you that re-reading Heinlein's Stranger in a
Strange Land and Irving's World According to Garp (both after a couple decades)
alternately/in tandem by flashlight while the electricity is out due to storms
is a mind-bending experience.
I'm going to sleep now for the day, having spent the night awake.
Thank God tomorrow (today?) is Sat and I don't have to do a damned thing but
grocery shop.
Julie Krueger
on the edge of dementia (why couldn't I have picked up Plato instead?)
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