Status Updates From The Shimmering Go-Between

This book is wonderfully weird so far... I'm not sure where it's going in the second half, but I'll go where it takes me. Perhaps it's marbleized inner-human tiny-homunculi-woman babies all the way down.

It reminded him of that story she'd read to him when he was very young, the one about the little Dutch boy who put his finger in a dam to hold back a flood. It was the opposite of that: whenever he put a bit of him inside her she burst.

squirmy post-coital eccentricities

She'd never had a suicidal thought until she was dead.

Co-workers agreed that "moving on was probably the best bet," that "life went on for the living," that "he should hold on loosely but not let her go." All of which made him want to throw himself out the window. But it was a one-story building and the windows only opened a crack.

She realized that recognizing she'd forgotten meant she'd remembered.

Plot-wise, this is getting very weird indeed, but am digging the syntactics and cadences....

In the history of medicine, he had never heard of anything like it. Other than the Virgin Mary, of course.

Finally linked up with my now-Yankee parental units and claimed my copy of this handsomely-produced edition... Just settling down to it... Seems to be the perfect foil for Middlemarch and The Tunnel!

That doesn't look like anything to me.

Finishing cigarette then going for the big push.

I figure that if the crazy world of physics is real then the kookiest wacko shit you can think of can be and probably is real in some alt-universe. So yes, I believe in the little ladies. 2.78cm tall.

You guys should be reading this.

whoa

From a man now with his brain on fire, Lee Klein burns me.