bethb's Diaryland
Diary
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he had hoped she would assume he had succumbed
The Madcap show is done. Well...the main set anyway. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out- it's so simple. It's a 1950's b&w test pattern on the floor and grey-scale patterned flats. it needs to accomedate 9 10-minute plays and the theme was kind of...twilight zone which is why i suggested the TV thing. There are two big elements I haven't finished- one is the pipeline and one is the rooftop of a trailer. I need to go to the hardware store and find inspiration. I'm almost 200 pages into infinite jest. I think i'm at 191. Yesterday on the metro around p.183 a guy stopped me and asked if i was enjoying it and said that his friends said it was amazing but he couldn't make it past page 50. I admitted that it is difficult and i wished that i had taken notes but i didn't get into the whole thing about how i'm feeling about the book. I just said something like "yeah i don't think i'm smart enough to be reading this" which...it's always nice to admite your stupidity to strangers on the metro. for the record- do i think the book is amazing? right now, no. i think the brain that created the book was amazing. there are really beautiful moments and really lush rhythms (example: "...he had hoped she would assume he had succumbed...". I read that sentence about 26 times, there's just something really lovely about that patter which makes me think i'm not really doing the book service reading it in short dispatches on the metro but if i try to read it at home i fall asleep (not the books fault) or start fixating on all the other stuff i should be doing. i should have kept notes from the begining but i know either way i'm probably going to have to read this twice...likely not in a row. i need a book club.
11:56 a.m. - 2009-01-13
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