cracking DeepArcher

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

Hiiiigh Magics, Low Puns.

(That Cloud of Unknowing ref. makes me want to revisit Underworld again.)

Man, I keep hearing all this grumbling about how shallow & unrewarding
folks found BE, but the closer I peer the more the thing flowers.  Maybe
it's the benefit of my being a self-taught idjit & wannabe artist, maybe
it's my parents having been an agnostic electrical polymath & a witchy
painter slumming in the ad biz, maybe it's me being a runaway from the
sticks who's spent 18 years learning how to be a grownup without losing my
native sense of wonder, but this is a fucking excellent book, esp. for
being disguised as a genre exercise.  P. speaks to me, if not all of ye.

Looking forward to giving it a third read.  Gonna give it a few months,
tho.  I've got to plow through Melville's 'Pierre' first.
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