Creeping Figs

[jd]

Does anyone else here read N+1?  Has anyone read the recent bit on the
state of the short story?  The first sentence of Vineland certainly
reminds me of it.  I like N+1, from this one issue I've read, but that
whole the-novel-is-dead the-short-story-is-dead schtick, I might be
skeptical of recent writing but I think it's just naysaying BS.

On 9/17/06, Keith McMullen <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
> He woke up, and sunlight hit his face filtered through a 'Ficus
> pumila' hanging in the window. What's so difficult about this?
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> On Sep 17, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Steven wrote:
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>         He's forced the 'creeping' from the fig to attach itself to the
> sunlight coming slowly, etc.  A tad awkward to read but very dense
> imagery.
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> On Sep 16, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Carvill John wrote:
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> > "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted
> > awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window,
> > with a squadron of blue jays..." etc.
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> > Ok, leaving everything else aside, does that 'in sunlight through'
> > strike anyone else as slightly jarring, as if we'd expect something
> > else between 'sunlight' and 'through'? Some variant on, say, 'in
> > sunlight that', I dunno, 'shone through', 'filtered through'.......?
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