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two others that i like:
I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.
edward abbott: flatlands, a romance in many dimensions.
It is a long trip. We are the only riders. So that is how we have come to know each other so well that the sound of his voice and image flickering over the tape recorder are as familiar to meas the movement of my intestines the sound of my breathing the beating of my heart.
william s. burroughs: the ticket that exploded
personally, i think the opening line to gravity's rainbow is the finest one ever, all the more now for having read alternatives--though i like many of the alternatives.
on moby dick: it's a great book, but there's a sense in which had ishmael just had sex with the harpoonist, it wouldn't have gotten out of the first chapter.
on jane austen: i don't get it. maybe because it seemed logical after reading her to read george eliot's middlemarch, which was interminable. a super-vivid account of a hellishly small english town. it reminded me of new hampshire. i couldn't get out of there fast enough.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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