the reading life

June 3rd, 2008

I think that Annie Dillard is the exact literary opposite of David Foster Wallace. Short deliberate sentences, short chapters. Lots of divisions, of ideas and thoughts. Reading Annie Dillard, I’m finding it hard to put the book down, desiring to read one more paragraph or section or oh look the next chapter is only 6 pages. I think that if The Writing Life was a thousand pages and Infinite Jest was merely 150, The Writing Life would still be shorter.

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3 Responses to “the reading life”

  1. dbs on June 4, 2008 2:59 pm

    makes me feel like reading 1000 pages of a.d.
    never have time for d.f.w.

  2. marlo on June 11, 2008 6:30 pm

    Look, Dory! Felt appliances!

    http://www.sewnbyblythe.com/index.php?id=household

  3. Dory on June 11, 2008 6:40 pm

    Oh wow! I love that the blender is making a smoothie.

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