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The two books I ordered came in today, one called Multidirectional Memory and the other The Stranger Manual.
The first one, I'd read its first chapter for a course, and got it muddled with something else in a_morbid_sense_of_powerpoints. But it seems worth reading further.
Just the phrase, multidirectional memory - I get that. That's how my mind works. (Attention regulation disorder, it should be, not deficit. My attention is not deficient, it's just insufficiently organized, and sometimes it turns out better that way. Not always. But sometimes.)
The Stranger Manual: I'm also digging the title. A guidebook to/for an unknown person and/or a manual that's stranger than others.
The cover has an icon of a woman, like those on bathrooms, holding her head in her hand and a bit jagged on the edges, in front of a photo of swampland. What lurks, but with a wink.
I thank raze for this recommendation but admit that I might not get to it right away: I am juggling two other poetry books, and should probably finish one of those first. But this looks intriguing.
"Miss Peach" is a recurring character. Reminds me of when I had to dress up as Princess Peach (kids' day camp sort of deal) only I didn't have a pink skirt, so I went all in red.
Very profound. Multidirectional memory indeed.
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epitome of incomprehensibility
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The two books I ordered came in today, one called Multidirectional Memory and the other The Stranger Manual.
The first one, I'd read its first chapter for a course, and got it muddled with something else in a_morbid_sense_of_powerpoints. But it seems worth reading further.
Just the phrase, multidirectional memory - I get that. That's how my mind works. (Attention regulation disorder, it should be, not deficit. My attention is not deficient, it's just insufficiently organized, and sometimes it turns out better that way. Not always. But sometimes.)
The Stranger Manual: I'm also digging the title. A guidebook to/for an unknown person and/or a manual that's stranger than others.
The cover has an icon of a woman, like those on bathrooms, holding her head in her hand and a bit jagged on the edges, in front of a photo of swampland. What lurks, but with a wink.
I thank raze for this recommendation but admit that I might not get to it right away: I am juggling two other poetry books, and should probably finish one of those first. But this looks intriguing.
"Miss Peach" is a recurring character. Reminds me of when I had to dress up as Princess Peach (kids' day camp sort of deal) only I didn't have a pink skirt, so I went all in red.
Very profound. Multidirectional memory indeed.
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Why repeatest thou, blather? Arrggh.
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raze
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please feel not pressure to rest thine eyes upon "the stranger manual" too quick-like. i just really hope you enjoy it when you get to it.
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Hypatia_of_Alexandria, by Maria Dzielska, from The Word (used bookstore near McGill).
I went there yesterday intending to get presents for Dad and Y., intending to get something on historical syntax, and not finding anything I was looking for.
So I get something completely unrelated, because why not?
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Found at a craft sale in Valois Saturday before last:
The_Saskiad by Brian Hall (a teenage favourite - see relating_to_books)
The_Glass_Castle by Jeanette Wells (recommended by my student)
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