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The Helmet of Horror

so i do this thing. pick out one book that i think i'll love and one book i think i'll hate (based solely on cover and title, and maybe by reading a few random lines from back or inside flaps). buy 'em both, read 'em both, and be surprised... or not. this was one of the 'i don't think i'd read this based on the cover and title' books that i picked out at Strands in New York (it's counter was The History of Love by Nicole Krauss which has become one of my favorite novels). i also bought it because it was only five dollars. i never got around to reading it because... well, i didn't feel like reading it based on its cover and title, haha. but today i didn't feel much like packing so i picked up the book and decided to have a go at it. yes, it does have rollerskating dwarves in it.

"one cannot criticize a book for being unrealistic or unreal when the story is about the perception of reality."

the first thing i did after i finished this book was go on google and search 'helmet of horror, explanation.' i didn't realize until I got to the end of the book that the book wasn't so much about the storyline as it was about a concept. i'd like to say that it's brilliant, except, i can't even really grasp the concept yet so it's kind of hard to say. all in all, it's a fast read, but there were some passages that i had to re-read at least six or seven times, only to skip over them in frustration. i read a review on it, which made me feel a little better about not really understanding it in it's entirety. maybe it's the very fact that the concept of the book isn't something that's easily understood that makes it so brilliant. i dunno. alls i know is i had a teeny headache after reading it and i still don't really get what happens in the end. definitely something i'm going to have to re-read at least three or four (or more) times, but not anytime soon! anyway, if you want a challenge or just want to be mind f*cked for a while, i recommend it. be sure to let me know if you do read it, so i can ask you questions!


anyway, i plan to read about two books per month while in korea (i might finish a couple on the plane ride there, if i'm not crocheting) so i'll be sure to write about how those go and if they're worth a gander (some authors include jonathan safran foer (if you recognize the author, you already know what the book is!), jonathen lethem, ayn rand, julio cortazar, italo calvino.. and whatever else i can find in korea!).

don't know if-slash-when i'll have time to write again before korea, but i will 노력 to do so! and i know that makes no grammatical sense but.. you get what i mean!

jungle, out.

eidt- just found out that that The Helmet of Horror is a part of the Canongate Myth Series, which is a series of short novels that reimagine and rewrite ancient myths. this is no bueno. if any are as good as Pelevin's, i might just have to read them all!

Ooples and Banoonoos

an unintentional eavesdropping:

1:“did you know that tomatoes are fruits?”
2: “oh yeah”
1: “people think they’re vegetables because they put them in salads and stuff”
2: “avocados are fruits”
3: “kumquats too”
1: “well that’s a given”
3: “how do you guys know all this? Did you look it up?”
2: “yeah”
3: “what about cucumbers?”
1: “that’s a tricky one”
2: “vegetable.”

restaurant city; today's daily food quiz question:
A tomato is a:
a)herb
b)vegetable
c)fruit


somebody up there knows what he's doing.

Tommy G

this weekend was more or less...
a blast!

who doesn't love gambling until 7 in the morning, passing out by the pool, and getting lapdanced on by a stripper from american storm?

my noteboard post on langland's piers plowman may be overdue, but i now have hello kitty gum and blisters on my feet to show for good times.

cheers!

breathe in, breathe out

i'm waiting for blade runner to finish downloading so i can watch it and write a paper on it. it doesn't seem to matter how much of a rush i'm in to try and finish it so that i can get some sleep... or so that i can start my other paper, at that. it's been an hour an twenty-two minutes and the download is only halfway complete. blast. this is what happens when you rely too much on technology. disappointment. actually, this is what happens when you leech wireless off of an unknown source for the entire school year. disappointment. and slow connection.

but, for that matter, that's what happens when you rely too much on anything. no man is an island, but the smart ones will become islands. or at least a semi-private non-island... or a non-private semi-island... or something like that. i think i'm just delirious because i spend twenty dollars on a freaking hamburger today. it was a pretty good burger; not gonna lie. but not a twenty-dollar pretty-good burger. the company was also great. but... the beautiful thing is that you don't have to pay for company. well, for the most part. expensive food, priceless people... i guess it all kind of balances out. plus, i got to wear my bowling shoes today.


come on,
i just want to watch harrison ford fight some androids.
come on, itunes. any minute now.

what ever happened to my lunch box?

sometimes i wonder where it's all gone. time, people, thoughts, memories, moments, feelings.. my favorite blue shirt....
and then i wonder where i've gone. where where i've been, where i am and where i'm going. who i've been, who i am, who i'll become.

eyes unfurl, mind expands, soul inflates--
but
i'm still just me.

my leg is asleep.

i count down the days.
i think i will be happy;
i think that says a lot.