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Also on the women thing, the question was asked in an interview and he answer was convincing enough.
And he said that Golgoth was the hardest to write so maybe I was wrong. But all of the characters are parts of him anyways (said so himself, can only look for characters inside of him, they inhabit him)
Anyways, I might take a break from this book

...so I get that after so much work he thinks highly of his books. But it feels more like a exercice of style. Not of telling a story. It feels like he writes for the words, and how they go with one another, how to play with them to make the most of their sounds and meanings and impacts. So it is interesting to read, it is kind of genius. But it lacks emotions, humanity, somehow...it just doesn't touch your soul.

Halfway through, i'm gets tired of these big chunky paragraphs or monologues i just want the plot to unfold !!!!
Listened to a 3h podcast w Damasio yesterday, i feel really mitigated about this guy.
At one point he said that his purpose, what interests him, is to make literature evolves, no matter how tiring (?) is style can be. I get his approach on writing, how it takes him years (6 for this one) isolated in nature

can't stop myself from reading even though i should be reading 100 pages a week if i want it to last for the whole trip. but it's ok. maybe i'll find a book in english

c'est honnêtement du génie de manier la langue ainsi; en revanche je déplore la manière dont les personnages féminins ne sont qu'égéries de douceur, désir, force calme... ça ne m'étonne pas de damasio qui est brillant mais que je vois comme une sorte de bête brusque incarnant une masculinité un peu animale (comme Golgoth), ce qui colle très bien avec sa conception/construction des rapports hommes/femmes

50 pages in, i am reading about a group of people fighting wind. don't really get it, and the language is particular, has you surprise by where the sentence is going, words refers to things i don't know; but little by little, i find this strange, unknown world growing onto me

pages are numbered from 701 to 1 so can't be track :(

starting the only (big) book i took to read on this trip