Re: The Mezzanine
Liz Pease (eap3k@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
Thu, 27 Feb 97 13:39:29 EST
Hi all-
I don't have anything too brilliant to say about this book, but I
thought I'd share an interesting thing that happened to me: I started it
Sunday or Monday and read over 1/2 of it by Tues and I LOVED it. I was
laughing my head off, reading lines to anyone who would listen, generally
being exceedinly pleased and amused by how "true" I found much of the book.
When I picked it up to finish it, however, several days later, I could barely
get through it. I really didn't like it. I was distracted and bored by
Howie's musings, perhaps because the book had pervaded my thinking enough
that I was having my own such musings and was no longer interested in
Howie's. They are, after all, deeply personal thoughts, ones that, as
someone said in class Tues, one would think but never say. These thoughts
are the real stuff of life, though, if you ask me -- the only things that we
can ultimately claim as our own, the things that truly make up daily life (as
opposed to the sublime which, as stated in class, makes up only a tiny bit of
life).
Liz