Status Updates From New Impressions of Africa

🌟 **"First chapter"**: A captivating play that immerses readers in a lush world of exotic flora and indigenous culture. The historical context of 1910 reveals European colonization scars, adding depth. Explore philosophical undercurrents and French history. Theatrical allure, metaphorical intricacies, silent film influence, and mind-bending effects make this literary journey truly fascinating. #Literature

**Reading Journey Update**

Since 2015, I haven't read as much due to my father's illness and subsequent passing in 2017. Along the way, I've faced memory lapses and concentration challenges. But now, I've decided to keep a reading journal. 📖✍️

Despite my mind sometimes drifting to household tasks, problems, and other distractions, I'm determined to tackle this reading challenge.

Hey bookworms! Today, I'm setting sail on a thrilling literary voyage around the world.

Join me as I explore the pages of timeless classics that every book lover should devour before they kick the bucket!

**Book List**: I'm diving headfirst into the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" challenge. First stop? **"Impressions of Africa"** by Raymond Roussel.

Luckily, I'm still managing and trying not to rush through it. Ford really is a translator worthy of praise and the little references/explanations given help the reader so much. But going to take a breather coz I don't read much poetry to begin with mhm! I don't mind admitting I'm a neophyte in the field... :D

There are poets who will romance the appearance of a flower; lusting away in extensive verbiage so pronounced that it assaults the reader..making the ordinary feel inept--oops forgive the euphemism--Stupid. What I'm appreciating thus far, is how the fewest possible words allow us to ensue the ruminative process on our own. My first of Roussel so a bit apprehensive, but as the pages go by so does the reason to fret.

I have no idea what this is about. But it's quite evocative.

What in the HELL is this? Roussel never ceases to amaze. And the illustrations!?!?

Time in its working makes our minds default;)))) / Accepts the void of the celestial vault.

In love there's none that may rival Onan / For skill in offering catch-as-catch-can; The Column, which, if licked until the tongue bleeds, cures jaundice.

A waterskin pierced by a 'treacherous' blade, an angry barrister, a scarecrow, a man lighting a pipe etc. Everything is an interruption.

The Battlefield of the Pyramids. Mechanical poetry.