QUOTE OF THE DAY: "LET'S CELEBRATE! DO YOU HAVE ANY PICKLES?" - "monika" (bergman)
two books i finished yesterday: Proust and Signs (deleuze), This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald).
Deleuze-- uh, considering how revelatory Proust is on almost every page, this kind of took all the "fun" out of it. overall, boring, not insightful, and almost a mockery of good literary criticism. on the other hand, deleuze is a smart dude, there aren't any missteps here, just a miscarriage of tone. the Rene Girard discussions of Proust are far superior.
Fitzgerald-- ugh, fuck this book. total "first novel" syndrome to the 10th degree. i don't even really want to talk about it. worst part is his attempt at characterization for the 8 or so minor characters... why bother?
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