Posted by
glen ropella on
Mar 21, 2013; 5:59pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Twitches-tp7582180p7582197.html
Steve Smith wrote at 03/21/2013 10:24 AM:
> I'll see your "King's Men" and raise you a"Stone Junction"
> <
http://books.google.com/books/about/Stone_Junction.html?id=woneSCNLbrYC> by
> Jim Dodge
Ordered!
> When Glen writes his "great american novel" (surely to be also an
> alchemical potboiler, a digital noir happening, an outlaw epic?) all his
> (published on paper or internet, indexed by Google) forgotten influences
> and sources will be exposed. His Twitch will be a folding of the
> origami paper, or perhaps a pull of the taffy.
Unfortunately, I think the novel is dead as a format for story telling.
It may return if peak oil or a zombie apocalypse obtains. But overall,
I think it's efficacy is dwindling rapidly. I still like them because
that's the way I was trained. But I find them increasingly difficult to
read ... the surrounding people, devices, and non-fiction books with
good indices draw my attention away from novels. I'll play a video game
for 6 hours. But I won't read a novel for 6 hours. Even when I do
manage to read for a long time, it sparks ideas that I have to write
down or pause to look something up in another book. I am no longer
linear ... or even first order continuous.
--
=><= glen e. p. ropella
The dog is dead and the sacrifice is done
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