IJ Footnotes

[RICHARD ROMEO]

I find it odd that some waited until the end to read the footnotes-if you 
did you wouldn't know of JI's Film histography e.g. (ala Citizen 
kane-giving you all the elements like Slothrop's desk that will 
eventually turn up later in the book)  Unless this is a book like Perec's 
Life:  A User's Manual where there are literally eight different ways to 
read the damn thing (Bartlebooth Bartlebooth Bartelbooth instead of a 
linear reading e.g.)

Saw a guy on the train yesterday reading IJ with a goofy smile on his 
face-I knew he was reading it by the way he was doing that flopping back 
and forth and twisting his neck alot.  

Did anyone notice the true center of the book?  I will not give it away 
for those still plowing through.

And finally thanks whoever for the Wilton Barnhardt recommendation-loved 
Emma Who Saved My Life-am going to start Gospel today.

P.S.  Anyone catch the review in NYTBR 3/17-review of somehting called 
The Holiness of the Beard-about a Zoyd Wheeler type in seedy San 
Diego-will get the title and author tomorrow-reviewer compares it  to 
Vineland



Rich

NYC