Andrew Sare > Recent Status Updates

“Clouds Rushing allied with the Quick Slow needs the evaporations that the white falcon sniffs from the antipodes. Reproduction exists by look and shout. The coconut palm has a mirror glance that reproduces if one sinks a finger into its fortuitous waves.” Ok ok. I think I’m in trouble with this one. This right here is a good example of why I made the right choice getting the English version. Oh my!

I bought a multi coloured post-it note set to mark out all the books that Steven More reviews herein that I’m interested in. My book looks like a hedgehog piñata. Damn you Mr Moore.

So luxurious:

"Merton did not speak. He shared a mouth to be torn at the tripod. We went back the way we had come, past the site of the stocks where the Isabel... and other vessels were built, past the site of the cookhouse cellar with its single shattered cup, past the graveyard knoll which we did not visit the first time, for we had seen and heard, and each of us had other keepings and reckonings to manage."

My thumb is usually off the pulse of what is new and popular. But, here I am - looking forward to this.

Weird that Puig's Kiss of he Spider Woman is being released as a movie today while I'm reading another of his books. I had no idea that was coming. Maybe I should have read that one instead, then I would have been more plugged in.

I better start thinking of the next big project after this one I guess. Spoiler, I have one in mind, how long before I make it my next major time suck is the question.

Picked it up last night: no idea what had occurred in the first 30 pages. A vague sense of remembered feelings, which seemed to me had happened in my subconscious during the day, not the prior night's read. Thats it. Like trying to remember a dream gone by, which ironically, or not, is the form of narrative of the book: a stream of consciousness dreamscape. I re-read from the beginning. Its pretty trippy stuff.

“Perhaps the greatest music was that which had no meaning. And sometimes an engraver had added a black spot to his scale to confuse musicians in that great day when his music should be heard…” - Young

slow going

“And now that you have just got to the end of these four volumes - the thing I have to ask is, how you feel your heads? my own akes dismally” Sterne

It took about 150 pages for the titular character to be born, not because anything in particular was happening. Let’s call it rambling by Sterne.

In all that time there were next to no mentions of the mother. His birth was rather an examination of philosophy, current events and morality by the father, uncle and doctor. They were the ones that went through the labour.

Now Sterne is getting to the preface!

“if I thought you was able to form the least judgment or probable conjecture to yourself, of what was to come in the next page, - I would tear it out of my book.” - Sterne.

Well. That’s the ways it’s going to be is it? I see.

Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (chime in if you're reading buddy) has transcribed Moore's Shandian Spawn reading list which flowed from Sterne. However in that list, among all the titles provided, is "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy" by, get this: Yakov de Saglen. Who? What? let me in on what is going on here. There is even a Goodreads entry for the Yakov de Saglen "edition" marked "to read" by 6.

Officially my 700th addition to Goodreads (assuming I don’t have accidental double posts).