About Shakespeare, I had in mind the materiality, the weight, the inescapable self-consciousness of the language: it's a storm of words. Whereas Tolstoy is the only major writer I've read where the words efface themselves and you are, as the book reviewers say, simply there.
Sounds like good advice on FQ. I read excerpts from Book One in college and found it very entertaining at the level of the image.
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Date: 2005-03-26 04:58 pm (UTC)Sounds like good advice on FQ. I read excerpts from Book One in college and found it very entertaining at the level of the image.