Anodyne
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
 





Recent reading. Although it may not always look like it, there's always a book or two in my big purple backpack. It's a strange comfort, the sense of someone speaking authoritatively and directly to you, at your own pace, in your own time. The King is, as always, a mixed bag: a creaky plot hooked up to some gorgeously clear sentences and several remarkable passages of stream-of-consciousness narrative. "A high haze had crept over the dome of the sky, muting the pinpricks of light on the water." Nothing special about that sentence save its clarity: a planed pine board.
- posted by cjb @ 9:19 PM


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