“My silent response to the expectant silence begins to affect the air of the room, the bits of dust and sportcoat-lint stirred around by the AC’s vents dancing jaggedly in the slanted plane of windowlight, the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer.”

I will for sure let you know about Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, which I have not read.

I also love Infinite Jest and am surprised that I’m enjoying it as much as I am. Not only is it hilarious, it’s mind-boggling how Wallace can take an idea and wring every drop out of it. I don’t know how he got it all out of his head and onto paper and managed to fit it together like pieces of a puzzle that I trust will ultimately give us a picture.

I just finished reading the section on the videophones–amazing.

And right before that, the letter from the guy who threw bricks in a barrel off a building–still laughing at that (although I don’t yet know how it fits into the puzzle).

Did you notice the link in the post to your recent post?

Also happy to see you on She Writes. It looks like it’s going to be a wonderful place.

Recently I’ve been paying more attention to why I choose a particular book to read when there are so many out there. In fact, I’ve started noting that by the book I’m reading now on the Reading List page.

A year ago, when I was going through all the stacks of books that had accumulated unread under the table in my study, so many I had no idea why I had bought. I should put a little sticky note in the front of each one saying why I bought it.