This marks my first entry of the New Year, and so I feel I should express some forward-thinking ideas. I do, after all, work for a science fiction publisher. Shouldnt I aspire to be a futurist?
Alas, I am quite prone to nostalgia. When I ride trains and buses, I like to sit looking backward at what weve passed rather than what were going toward. The events on the forward horizon rush me at a panic-strickening paceblurring indistinguishably as they go by, whereas what is aft coalesces gently with each new point of reference to form a trompe loeil tableau.
Forward or backward? Which is it?
Alas, I am quite prone to nostalgia. When I ride trains and buses, I like to sit looking backward at what weve passed rather than what were going toward. The events on the forward horizon rush me at a panic-strickening paceblurring indistinguishably as they go by, whereas what is aft coalesces gently with each new point of reference to form a trompe loeil tableau.
Forward or backward? Which is it?
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Have you read No Country for Old Men, yet? I'm going to start it today.
I suppose my favorite is Suttree or Blood.
Funny thing, I was skimming through it again the other day, hadn't read it in 10 years, and was amazed at the prose...it's hard to describe...def. leaves you with a sense of something mighty and tragic and brilliant..