| It | might | be | a | decade | since | I | self-enforced |
| my | rule | that | once | I | read | 1/10th | of |
| a | novel | I | must | finish | the | novel | no |
| matter | what | ||||||
| I | meant | to | enforce | it | during | a | recent |
| attempt | at | rereading | that | fucking | whale | novel | and |
| intended | to | read | the | rendering | of | tortured | and |
| murdered | whales | but | failed | ||||
| I | am | rereading | for | the | first | time | in |
| that | would | be | research | years | William | T | Vollmann's |
| *Fathers | and | Crows* | Book | Two | of | the | Seven |
| Dreams | in | which | many | humans | will | be | savagely |
| tortured | and | murdered | |||||
| This | I | can | make | myself | do |
Fine metaphors abound . . . .
ReplyDeleteabundant indeed
ReplyDeletethat slab being stuck by Bob
was not finely sliced
I read books the way most people (used to?) watch TV, skipping from here to there, jumping from this book to that - well, one year I challenged myself to finish every book that I started - man, what a mistake.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing worse than force feeding yourself to eat a turd. What an awful year. It's something I will never do again.