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This proving to be an enjoyable one day read, it was especially enhanced this a.m. as the snow floated past, innocent and forgiving.
I can respect and appreciate the experimental nature of this book. The technical work on this book is pretty impressive; but sort of impressive in the way that sewer systems are impressive. Unless you are a city planner you probably can't appreciate the beauty of the technical expertise of a well planned sewer system. Unless you are a literary professor or something like that you probably can't appreciate the technical beauty of this book. I like the weaving nature of the story. The intersection...
Reminds me of Arno Schmidt: King of the Semi-Colon, only without the irascibility that makes Schmidt so funny. I could be reading this one entirely wrong, but it seems to be an Oulipian exercise in story-telling as solitaire, with attendant puns (in particular, the interminable mineral cataloging). Not bad, but not what I was expecting, either, given its great description. I think I felt the same way about his Degrees.
Disappointing waffle nowhere in league with Mobile or Degrees.