Closed the book on The Ambassadors last
night at the Holiday Inn Express (E Flagstaff) this despite a printer that sounded
like a prairie dog was trapped in it and a customer that looked like
a supporting character on an 80s TV show such as Benson. (He probably
wondered the same thing about myself).
Feel that I improved my comprehension
by a 1,000 per cent, even though I followed about 7 per cent of it.
Still it's very compelling. A perspective like this I have not seen!
What a weirdo! I could barely even follow a lot of the conversation.
The words that came out of a character's mouth in reply to a fairly
straightforward question simply wasn't the kind of thing you would
say in reply if you wanted the questioner to make heads of tails of
what you were saying.
Interesting.
Apparently two chapters were for years
out of sequence confirming my suspicions that no one knows what the
heck is going on here. Then again there is non-linear unfolding
through time and space that serves the novel's purpose. Blah-blah.
Still I am curious if people talked like this and acted like this in
1903. If so I wouldn't have lasted a minute.
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