Re: The Mezzanine
Katie Kwast (ktk5a@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU)
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 18:36:19 -0500 (EST)
i think that part of the point of the book could be to counter the idea
that to make life worthy we must analyze it. that there are many things
in life that can be appreciated without analyzing them but just observing
them. kind of like the idea of don't let the little things pass by.
because they make up a good size part of your life if you let
yourself think about it. maybe that is the problem some people have
with the book, they don't like thinking about how much of their life
is made up of what they see to be insignificant things. while some of the
objects described is this book may be pushing his point a little too far,
i think that they may be necessary to prove the point. in addition
analyzing in some instances may even take away from the enjoyment
of an object or thing. i am enjoying this book. i agree that at times
some of the passages describing one action or another become a little
tiresome, but on the whole i find the way Baker looks at the world around
him interesting. especially since he is describing things that most of us
can relate to. while at first the objects or actions he describes
seem a little random, but these are things that we spend a fair amount of
time using or doing over the course of a lifetime...tying shoes, putting
on deoderant, using cardboard milk cartons, etc. things we may not
realize take up as much of our life as they do.