Quotes from Life

[RICHARD ROMEO]

I looked through for those quotes from Perec's Life A User's Manual and 
found:



"Gaspard Winckler is dead, but the long and meticulous, patiently laid 
plot of his revenge is not finished yet".--pg. 6



"Bartlebooth found the very essence of his passion in this feeling of 
being stuck:  a kind of torpor, a sort of repetitious boredom, a veiled 
befuddlement in search of a shapeless something whose outlines he could 
barely manage to mumble in his mind...background noises to a wretched 
madman's obsessive and sterile musings."-pg. 337



I find an underlying sinister-ness to much of this book which for me 
parallels some of the "mirror-time" musings in V. The second quote 
reminded me immediately of H. Stencil.  



BTW, with you all on reading V.-amazing how strong this book gets on 
every successive reading (my third)  



Richard Romeo

Coordinator of Cooperating Collections

The Foundation Center-NYC

212-807-2417

rromeo at fdncenter.org