When I laugh, it feels like a couple seconds of happiness, of immaturity, etc. Even if I'm laughing at something in poor taste, offensive, or anything really. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain. Uproot your questions from their ground and the dangling roots will be seen. I read the first book a long time ago and it is without doubt the best book I've read. I need something to read now. Do you think I should read the rest? Were they as good? Did they do justice in carrying the story-line forward? The first book is a hero's tale. The books that follow kind of deconstruct the myth of the hero. Opinion varies, but most people seem to rate the third and fourth books highly, and the second, fifth and sixth as less good.
Most people rate the books by his son rather poorly.
Personally, I enjoyed all of them, particularly the second one. It's about Paul, master of everything, able to see the future, utterly trapped by his position, his mythos, and by fate. He can't see how to stop the jihad in his name, or how to save those he loves. The third book is about his children's rise to power, the fourth about his son's decision to become a monster - more sandworm than man, and the last two are set much later, and feature the Bene gisserit struggling with an invasion of humans lead by an order not unlike themselves from outside known space.
So I love the core six books as much as anyone. The first four tell a fantastic story, solid and tight, lots of interesting twists, the 5th and 6th tell a different story and it is also amazing. The only bad note I have for the first six books is that Frank Herbert died before writing more. As far as the BH and KJA Dune books, it depends on if you are willing to put up with a quippy and less deep overall writing style then sure they are pretty alright. I actually enjoy the Legends of Dune series about the Butlerian Jihad, some of the side stories are more enjoyable than the actual Jihad.
So many quotes from Watership Down. As a child the one that stuck with me the most was Frith "All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed". That was one of my favourite books growing up! My favourite quote from it is "There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.
For me it is this one from LOTR: Many live that deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too hasty to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise can't see all ends. Honestly, I feel like this applies to any judgement call we might need to make in our daily lives. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. The next one I write is going to be fun. This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt.
From the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, when Huck realizes that he'd rather do what he felt was right than what society has dictated is morally correct; he'd rather be eternally damned and forego heaven than turn in his friend Jim:. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:. Favorite of mine, too though it's not strong enough without the whole lead-up to these lines , but you've got to edit it on that last line to get that italics on "go", it's critical:.
It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life You give them a piece of you.
They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I know this is a classic one that most people know but, "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Other quotes from more modern books that have stuck with me are, "Caddy smelled like trees" from ironically enough The Sound and the Fury as well as, "I can still tend the rabbits, George? Also, there's no way I could adequately describe the tears I shed as a high school junior reading the end of Of Mice and Men while already struggling with the grief of my dad passing earlier that semester. Something in the pure and true friendship of George for Lenny, even knowing how much it was going to hurt himself forever was so touching.
The selflessness of it all was heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. But seriously my favourite quote from that book is "I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.
I like the one sorry for paraphrasing on mobile " 'most human beings have the almost infinite capability for taking things for granted'.
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Every member of the world state is happy, yet their happiness wouldn't be enough for us who have to compensate for the misery in our lives. The philosopher Democritus said we should take the awful parts of life for granted, and that each joy we find is a bonus. The members of the world state take joy for granted, and sorrow is nonexistent. You are unlucky, so I may know that I am not.
Unfortunately the lucky never realizes they are lucky until it's too late. The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: The Stranger by Camus. Not a book I even particularly liked all that much but that line hits hard. It is up to all of us to become his moral superior. In truth, all sensation is already memory. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Maybe not as profound, but nontheless has stuck with me.
I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart. I absolutely loved it. So, how did you like the Dark Tower series? For an book with such an anti-faith message, Ishmael , had a wonderful quote about evangelizing that as stuck with me since I read it in October.
Paul spent half his life preaching the gospel, and me, an average dude, can reach more people with the same message in ten minutes than Paul reached in his entire life. That's crazy to me. To summarize the summary: My sin, my soul. It just speaks to me about how we sometimes put ourselves in a certain mindset that can be incredibly detrimental and hard to get out of, and this is especially true for those with depression.
An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving. Also the bit about not entering conflicts with fanatics unless you can defuse them, but that has less punch. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die. I threw him off me and we both looked at each other, sitting there on the sidewalk. I put my arm around him, and me and Trezz walked down the street. And it was just like the old days. Even if they could defeat Randall Flagg, whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams. The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands.
A hospital alone shows what war is. Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front. We don't want to take the world by storm. We fly from ourselves. We were eighteen and loved life and the world, and then we had to shoot it to pieces. But man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assured. His glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as makes the angels weep.
Pretending to understand everything, but in reality not knowing their own minds. And the I know a charm monologue from American Gods. I don't know why that one sticks with me, it just has the right flair to it, I guess. Believe me, for the vast majority of people, that's just where beauty lies--did you know that secret? The terrible thing is that beauty is not only fearful but also mysterious. Here the devil is struggling with God, and the battlefield is the human heart. The Wheel of Time. In like, book 11 or something, there's a moment that is just beautifully painful. Not gonna spoil for anyone, but I definitely cried there.
To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death.
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This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? Jeanette Winterson- Written on the Body. I think those three words are a pretty good example of the feeling you get when reading Vonnegut. Like a kid that fell and is caught in a conflict between laughing and crying. The cold relentless circling of the intestate Earth. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe.
And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it" - Cormac McCarthy's The Road. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand.
Polished and muscular and torsional. So happy for you, Jenny! Kat recently posted Elements of My Parenting. I received the preorder for Christmas! So am very excited to get my hands on the book. I am just not fond of the waiting game! I suck at waiting patiently!
Simone recently posted Happy New Year I cannot wait to read this book first and then get to be the one who recommends it to all my friends!!! When is it going to be on Audible. Thank you for the ugly truths and superior humor and for connecting with so many of us that you will never meet. Your rantings feel like home to me. You are a freaken delight. Key Largo is beautiful anytime of year! Thank you, again and again and again…. Hey all — Pre-order of the book can be done here — http: I just received my necklace…Never give up…I too suffer depression and anxiety and am so excited to wear this every day in the hopes that people ask me about it and I can share with them my story.
I blot at http: I love your blog and relate in so many ways. Pre-ordered my copy yesterday. I even got you the link…. Annette Baesel recently posted Enjoying the Bounty of the Market. I will be buying your book. I will probably be buying several. I will be doing this mostly for my hubster and two grown children. I will hand them the book. I will command them to read it. My Barry Manilow fetish and penchant for screaming at Always commercials seems pretty normal, now, right?
Someone who bought your book also bought a giant pack of toilet paper. Why does Amazon sell toilet paper? Happy early Birthday present to me. Kara recently posted Riley on Marketing and Food. Only books listed for me, no other cool merch. Anna recently posted My reluctant experiment in going offline. I discovered your blog when you put up the Found Snake sign.
I laughed so hard I could hardly stop. It still makes me laugh every time I think of it. I live in a very conservative community where your book would create LOTS of controversy. There has to be a way for me to get the library to order it without them knowing how awesomely controversial it will be. Mwah hah hah, this should be great fun! Thanks for your fabulous life, and for sharing your book with us. I read the advance reading copy of your book one of the perks of owning my own bookstore where, ahem, one could order said book and plan to suggest it with every purchase, sort of like super-sizing an extra value meal.
It really works for everyone. Since I am a complete history dork, I have to point out that your paragraph about Abraham Lincoln dying because people put their grubby hands in his bullet wound sounded more like what happened to James Garfield. Lincoln — massive head wound Garfield — superficial back wound that proved fatal after being probed for months. It even inspired Alexander Graham Bell to invent the metal detector to find the bullet. Do you know if your book will be available is softcover? I pre-ordered it from amazon. I have been very sick lately with no access to your site tear so I am counting the days for the book release so I have a travel edition of your stories.
Alison recently posted Welcome! I cannot wait to read your book!! Mostly so I can stop doing drugs. Do you think that maybe you should come up with a marketing plan specifically for drug dealers? It must be all the drugs. Because they would be so thankful. Emily recently posted Now it's my turn to meltdown. Oh, I think commenter 27 has it absolutely right!!! A book tour with you autographing copies in the restroom. That, would be perfect. Will it be on kindle? The hump on my back is finally going away, because I now carry around 87 books on a tablet… or in it…whatever.
Dear everyone commenting about Amazon or Kindles: Right in or your near your own communities? You can even buy your e-books through them. Support independent stores everywhere! Chicken Buckaww, typically a paperback edition of a book comes out only if the hardcover sells well enough. A few publishers publish both types simultaneously, but not many. Ann Burlingham recently posted Live Music: It is going to be amazing.
It is going to get all kinds of love from all kinds of […]. Oh this is awesome! Just what I need!!! I just bought your book. I feel like I am getting into another Twilight or Hunger Games series. I already have to wait months on end for other books to come out, then I have to wait for those books to be turned into movies and then wait for those movies to be released. I just thought you were better than those corporate assholes. Which is why I am going to shut up now and wait patiently for your book. Plus days because I was too cheap to pay extra shipping.
So really, like, April 21st. Or maybe longer because there could be a holiday somewhere in there or god forbid another national weather emergency. If that is the case, I will be convinced that the world is not going to end and that in fact, the world is just conspiring against me so that I cannot read your book. Which is kinda how I feel already. I am dragging, mostly because my boyfriend pissed me off tonight and by sitting here typing, he thinks I actually have a life and that I am not thinking about how pissed I am at him for being a tard bot.
Well me and you and whoever else might, unfortunately, happen to scroll down and read this. Sincerely, Your biggest fan. I just got my ARC through work I work at an independent bookstore in Michigan , and am having flashbacks to visiting yooper cousins as a kid. Lincoln recently posted Thoughts on covering Dylan. I will still be buying a hardcover, because books this fancy deserve to be in the best possible format.
No paperbacks and none of that e-book bullshit. Oh dear god there IS a Kindle version! But what the F am I going to do with the bookplate. Bloody hell I may have to get both the hard cover and the Kindle version. April 17 is actually my birthday, so happy birthday to me! And very heartfelt confratulations to you, Jenny. I am sure the book will be a wild success. Son of a bitch!
I totally forgot I read this last night and wanted the book plate and preordered for Kindle. Karen W recently posted Lake house laziness. I preordered for Kindle. I asked for a bookplate anyway. Admit it…everyone wants to live in Canada! So I pre-ordered your book with our big local book seller up here in the Great White North and I have to wait until early April!
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Before I found out that he is a sucky sharer, I preordered your book on the kindle. He found out tonight that I ordered it, and is all mad that I will be hogging the kindle for a few days after it comes out. This is why I need to buy a tape recorder. Evidence is the only way to prove how right, smart, or innocent I am. Also, I might end up with good blackmail material.
Probably the second choice is my best argument, since we both already know that I am never wrong. How much bribery would it take to get a bookplate shipped to Canada? I can see if I can find some strange taxidermied animals for you? Put a mini-Beyonce on a Canadian landmark and take photos? Send you my first born? Keep up the fabulousness. And, Happy Birthday Lisa! Were your birthdays always worked around Easter and the first day of Trout Season too? When will it be released to those of us in the rest of the world? So what about those of us who pre-ordered the Kindle edition?
I just ran across your blog and have to tell you that you will be my first Blogger to follow. Thanks for the entertainment!
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I preordered this book.. Please open a Book Blog for when the book comes out! And just a note: Thanks for bringing the fun back! Gutted not to be able to get a signed bookplate — due to being a reader across the pond in the UK — but SUPER excited to have pre-ordered your book. Yours in ardent admiration, the Accidental Londoner.
I was going to order the Kindle version of your book, but decided to get the HC edition so that I can share it with my wife. I wanna signed bookplate!!!!!! I'm ordering on Amazon, but because you are Amazing, I believe I'll allow it. Rachel recently posted So, I write. Are you getting an error message? Will it let you look at the link at all? I see new names coming in. Jenny the bloggess recently posted And then all of my fingers fell off.
As I write this tears of intense sorrow are running down my face — I pre-ordered your book from Amazon. Us dodgie pale faces in Blighty need your wisdom too! Are there any other options for obtaining it outside of the US? Hi from the UK, Jenny. Long have I loved your blog. No-one can make me laugh and sometimes cry like you! So I pre-ordered your book in a frenzy of excitement! Can I please add my plea to those of the other bereft UK people above for advice on how to get hold of the book?
Jenny the bloggess recently posted Dreams are assholes. Can I get this in the UK? Vicky Frankland recently posted Trashing the Memory Palace. I think I pre ordered the book…my iPad closed my browser! I wonder if the apple people will find this and remove it,,,. I almost used zombies to teach my child about Easter, but I wanted to avoid a nasty note from the Christian daycare. Ashley recently posted The birds and the tees. As much as I love Amazon for the hard-to-find soft-core gay tv series hello!
Plus, I can talk their ears off about the author and make them sell more books… Just looking for the release date so I can pester the locals. Love your friendship with Laura. Amazon will not let me. I am deemed unworthy. I think it is because I am Scottish. They will however let me buy it once it is released?!?!? They just refuse to let me pre-order it.
I have set an alarm on my Kindle to buy it as soon as it is released. If this is what they do. I totally have them fathomed…………. One of the perks of working at a book store BAM is that I get to peek at the advanced copies sent to the store. Plus, it makes me feel a bit better about my own fucked up childhood, so thanks! I advise those who have pre-ordered it to also invest in a pack of adult diapers. I sincerely hope that you wander through Tennessee sometime for a book signing. I have the copy of your introduction letter to Books-a-Million that was tucked between the pages of the book.
I am keeping it. I might frame it. It is a literary masterpiece! I only wish I could have it autographed. Your book is hysterical. I work at a bookstore and we get advanced reads of books before they come out. Publishers send books not yet published to get booksellers to read them and help sell copies when the book does eventually come out.
I was torn on whether to preorder or hold out until I am employed again. Now I get to eagerly await packages in the mail, which is my second favorite thing. I thought you would make sure it was avail to me early. Just to prove a point. Why do I try typing things within the first 2 hours of being awake. What do I want with another book, Jenny? I pre-ordered it — but only because you told me too. I like how being on the internet means I never have to make my own decisions. People tell me what to do and I do it. He needs help in transporting the bulk of his estate over here to Canada.
How awesome is that? Kelly L recently posted Filler. Betty Fokker recently posted A distinct lack of justice and mercy. Just wanted to say that A you are awesome B though I follow you on Twitter and read the Blog, it was a tweet from a Canadian publisher which led me here, which, as a Canadian, I find kinda awesome see A and B how do manage to find yourself amongst so many whose work I admire? You have Wil Wheaton collating paper, Simon Pegg holding Twine which totally blew my mind as he is a Geek God to me until… you got a freaking book blurb from Neil Gaiman!
It has made my list of must reads which, because of my financial circumstances and love of physical copies of things, has become a difficult list to gain a space on. I just realized your book comes out on my birthday. Amazon UK now seem to have a listing again. Paperback only, for reasons not explained. Probably with a bullet. I love the incredibly dramatic mouse on your cover. He reminds me of a terribly sick joke we played on our child shortly after her beloved hamster, Rosco, passed away. We were cleaning the garage and happened across a squished flat dehydrated mouse.
What do we do with it? So our poor child comes home and bursts into tears because she thinks we have spray painted Rosco and hung him on a nail in our garage.
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We told her he had run away. I guess the rat was out of the bag then, huh? I fear getting this book. I am already forbidden to read anything that jiggles the bed because I am laughing so hard. But then sneaking off to a dark corner to read in the soft glow of my goofy-assed e-reader is an acceptable outcome my preccccciiiiooooussssss. Had to happen eventually. I already preordered my book through amazon when u first told us about it, can i still get a wrist band????
I just went to Amazon to pre-order your book and was excited that I could still receive a book plate — sorry about your hands falling off. I keep meaning to order it and forgetting…growing old, constantly forgetful, procrastinating or all of the above. What do you know? I ordered it way back in November!!! I actually pre-ordered TWO because I have to send one to one of my dearest friends who introduced me to you. Well, not you personally, your blog — namely Beyonce! Thank you for making me laugh, cry, gaffaw, reflect, snicker and remind my husband that I could have bought more towels!
Hoping I can still get a bookplate to go with my swanky new book! Carol recently posted Don't Forget Pretzel! I pre-ordered a couple weeks ago for the Kindle version. Am I too late to get a nameplate? Is it too late to get a bookplate? I was only just able to pre-order. Ok, so if I pre-order on Amazon, do I get one of the last-ever samples of your handwriting on a bookplate? Jane recently posted Chronic Pain and Catastrophic Medicine. Ray Charbonneau recently posted Bear Pond Books. Jenny, Jenny, Jenny…How happy I am that you are a fellow Texan just up the highway and not too far from me!
But not in a stalker-y way. OH, and please bring Beyonce to said DQ book signing. So two copies coming my way! How do I get a bookplate? Ok, you got me. I was going to wait until it came out, but i have been worn down in a good way and preordered the book. Now I am going to bug you until I get it. I am horrible with presents. If I know I have one coming, I cannot think of anything else. Now I need to go up my meds…. Hey, are there any bookplates left? I just ordered your book and would love one if you have one. Hmm I pre-ordered the hard copy after contemplating whether or not I wanted the electronic or hard copy.
I wish we got an electronic version after buying a hard copy. Just like you get a digital version of your movie when you buy a DVD. The bookplates expired last week but if there are a bunch still left they may open it back up. A Mostly True Memoir. Keeping my fingers crossed. I really hope that I have money in my bank account when we find out about the bookplates!
I ordered the book just now!! Hopefully, there are a few bookplates left!!! Hope there are a few more bookplates left! Mimi recently posted Bovine Beauty. Jenny, I just got back and pre-ordered your book, is it too late to sign up for the bookplate? If I still have time, can you please tell me what I need to do? I would love a bookplate if they are still available! Hi Jenny, Is it too late to sign up for a bookplate?
I am preordering on amazon. Can anyone provide a link to sign up for the bookplate? Already pre-ordered but want my bookplate! Could you just send me a lock of your hair for me to craft into a creepyawesome bookmark for your book? Cause nothing would tickle me more. If any of those wonderfully random yet still supremely awesome nameplates become available, I would love one!!!!
Are there still any bookplates left? I just preordered on Amazon!! So I went right to Amazon and bought it! I preordered a little while back and yet totally forgot about the bookplates — eep! Hi Jenny — who does the reading on your audiobook? And thanks for your awesome blog, always puts a smile on my face. You are totally rocking the first book thing! I hope there are still bookplates available. Your hand is probably cramping up at the thought of signing 50, more bookplates. But what did you expect? Sign on girlfriend… Sign on! I just pre-ordered the book for my kindle which will hopefully work by the time it comes out.
Is it possible to still get a book plate for my kindle case? I did not see the link to sign up for one. Probably right in front of my face. Just pre-ordered the ebook version of your book from Barnes and Noble. Laura Casa del Hansen recently posted Do you like wine? I pre-ordered it for my Kindle Fire after reading the HR excerpt and promptly making my coworker read it as well. Crazy HR day and your excerpts made my day. I just preordered it for my Kindle…. I am so excited about laughing out loud again! I pre-ordered a few days ago on Amazon. Maybe I need help. I am referring to finding the site to sign up.
With laughter of course. I have never laughed out loud so much in a book in my life! I was lucky enough to win a copy on http: Jenny Lawson, you are my new hero! April recently posted Books, Books!!! Because you said the winner will be chosen at random, I will save my witty comment for now. Only allowed a certain amount of those per day anyway. Blog is high-larious so looking forward to the book. Stayed up all night to finish reading it and laughed so hard tears ran down my leg a couple of times.
A coupon for a box of Poise should be included with every copy. Oh, and I wanna party with your folks. Am I too late for a bookplate? Barbara recently posted I only need one! I am sad, as I most likely have missed the bookplate goodness. I just pre-ordered from Amazon, I am going to be all impatient and cranky until it arrives!
I immediately thought it good fodder for your blog I included the link below so you can see for yourself. If nothing else, it may make you smile … as your blog does for us:. The outer cotton-blend shell accents curves with a double-breasted front held snug against bodies by matching buttons. Wearers secure their coat with an adjustable belt that can be tied in a knot, fed through a belt buckle, or used as a makeshift lasso during emergencies.
BUt am confused about how I get the bookplate? Does it just happen? Where am I supposed to input info? I finally saved up for a Kindle and pre ordered the book. Is there no more signed book plates?
Did my eyes just skip right over that option?? Pretty please with sugar on top? Cannot wait to read your book. Basketcase recently posted 20 Questions: Jenny, you should come to Bumpass, VA. Because seriously, we live in a town well…a small road with a post office and a stop sign called Bumpass, VA. How can you go wrong? Or at least, maybe come to Richmond, VA, and us few residents of Bumpass will drive out there to see you.
Is there any chance I can still sign up for a bookplate? If you open the bookplates back up, please sign me up! Have your book all set to come from Amazon. Too late for a plate? Please come to Pittsburgh on your book tour so I can meet you! Leah recently posted What to do when your significant other hates your friends. Outside of NYC, maybe, there is no better book town in the country.
What can we do to get you to come to us? Stuff one of the Republican candidates for president except Mitt, who I think has already been to the taxidermist? Collate more blank paper we have lots of it here? Cryogenically freeze Posey when or if she finally passes? You are totally a Mover and a Shaker. Shawn recently posted Super hero name.
Arie Milne recently posted Easter is.. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your blogs and for writing this book! Jenny, I just finally got a chance to pre-order your new book! Can we get digital bookplates? I suppose too I try to look at the making of fiction like this: I try to approach the page and the possibilities of the page and to make out of the limitations of the page and of language the way a child must experience the world when what he or she sees of that world is brand new. The moon for the first time, for instance, or the rain as it falls from the sky, the mud that the rain makes out of the ground, the things that rise up green and flowering out of the dirt.
I suppose I try to replicate the spirit of that moment when I take my language and my word-playing and the gaze of my eyes and the inner drum of my ears to the page that I am trying to make a world with. Of course it can. In the fiction that I write, maybe because it takes up such a small and marginalized place in the real world, it has no limits other than what I might choose to bring to it. Let me say this, too: There are words and then there are other words and in the end if the words make somebody other than me feel a particular feeling, then maybe the making of that singular sensation is the thing that makes the make-believe thing—what we call the fiction—the thing that is most real of all.
Or, if you want the nuts and bolts response: Come to the page with your sacred objects in hand and place them together in such a way so that those who take up into their own hands your pages find themselves lost in a kind of trance and can only gaze at what is being offered by you and not by the static distractions of the real world. Therein lies the magic of the imaginative act, the making method, the speaking that leads to our becoming.
And here to quote Rilke: So yeah, magic, real, truth, lying, language, nouns, the spell that wraps it all up in its ways of saying which of course is its own way of seeing. What kinds of revelation do you dream your reader might see in your books? I am ready for the ayahuasca , dear Shaman, guide me. I want to be transported to a place where words no longer mean what we think they mean. Maybe this is the revelation behind it all, the magic herb for us to place beneath our tongues. Your characters—both human and otherwise—seem to balance between inexhaustible innocence and a dangerous violence.
Can you talk about your process of character building? Something that I have always admired about your writing is how the characters seem built in such a way that they are reliant on another, not as foil but as completion. In my own writing, I have a difficult enough time building just one character, and yet, here you are, building two at a time! Maybe awe is the revelation that I am on the hunt for when you ask about revelation. Maybe awe is the trigger into reverie, into dream, that which opens up the trapdoor to the sublime, quicksand or mud that swallows us down into the eternal.
Our time here on earth. What do I know? Of course it pleases me more than just a little that you see the characters in my fiction as being well built and that they seem to be written in ways that there is a need for some other—some other character, or some other word—to make them singularly or dually whole. But back to your question, about characters, what else about this might I wish to say? I will say this: I mean who among us, if given the chance, would want to die alone?