talking about: missing things in VL

[pporteous at worley.co.nz]

>any old list partisan from across our world quoth (not in so many
>words):
>
> [that califragilistic book known almost as
> "W, or Thoughts of Childhood" is also a
> book with this technique.]

>now as long as you brought up GP, I can hardly omit _A Void_, can
>I now?


"Life, A User's Manual" is the other Perec book  I have gratefully devoured
- this too has the fantastic wild photo of the author on the back. While
we're on the subject of books (for a change (not)), I recently started
reading Infinite Jest, but gave up after 50 or so pages, as I wasn't
enjoying it - it seemed to have no soul to it and just be concerned with
showing how "clever" the writer is (apart from one or two good bits). Is it
worth persevering with? I have now picked up Russell Hoban's "Kleinzeit" -
now THIS is a wonderful book!

peter

ps. apology accepted, though we try to distance ourselves from colonialism
these days down here in little NZ.