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Monday, September 27, 2010


A sign on the door, "The message was: NU MISH BOOT ZUP KO. Gibberish but high-quality gibberish."

So we get to the climax of DeLillo's White Noise. Yes it sounds like Nabokov's HH stating, "You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." Ah the inadequacy of words and letters.

But how to resist. I sent the DeLillo text straight to the anagram maker. There were quite a few. Ouzo was a popular word. The one I like is:

Book Mouth Unzips

This relates to the reading subject and the theme that has brought Jack to the motel behind Iron City. Self referentiality is always nice for what's described as a postmodern book.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

What's white and black and noisy all over?


Only one answer of course.

Here he is.
If you don't know who this is, head over HERE and read about the annotation done by the American-Statesman, along with notes by the author himself.

Bad Books Galore, which for once is good!


http://awfullibrarybooks.net/

We spend enough time searching out good new books. Try this site for the worst of the worst.

Here you can see, for example, the basic reader series Pam's Hot Tub.