Status Updates From A Smuggler's Bible

“The pictures in my Iliad and my Famous Bible Tales reassured me, for I lived in a world of words. Duke had created this world. It was a live, whirling field of circuiting syllables crossing and re-crossing their hues and denotations until in the coiling, popping arcs of their grounded and ungrounded attractions these words became an expanding family more real than the dictionary said they referred to.”

Continues to be so much different from the book I expected it to be.

This should have been my first McElroy - it’s much less intimidating than Plus was when I read that one a few years back. Turns out this guy isn’t so impenetrable after all.