Colson Whitehead - Zone One

[rich]

a bit of an exaggeration to compare  there at the end but I liked the book
very much.

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 7:42 AM jody2.718 <jody2.718 at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Mondaugen's  Law updated. Sounds like a good investment in time. Thanks!
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> "...What actually *happens* in Zone One is very slight - the
> protagonist's actions could probably be condensed to 5-10 pages - but
> his temporal bandwidth is huge, so everything is echoed and refracted
> by the past that still lives in the present. It's not as simple as one
> thing triggering a memory, but everything in the novel's present
> conjures up the past as a kind of field. We're not just given a line
> of dialogue, but a bunch of lines that people used to say in those
> moments. Or a handful of situations that collectively describe the
> broader world, rather than merely one. It's hard to describe but it's
> extremely reminiscent of Pynchon's big books.
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> What actually *happens* in Zone One is very slight - the
> protagonist's actions could probably be condensed to 5-10 pages - but
> his temporal bandwidth is huge, so everything is echoed and refracted
> by the past that still lives in the present. It's not as simple as one
> thing triggering a memory, but everything in the novel's present
> conjures up the past as a kind of field. We're not just given a line
> of dialogue, but a bunch of lines that people used to say in those
> moments. Or a handful of situations that collectively describe the
> broader world, rather than merely one. It's hard to describe but it's
> extremely reminiscent of Pynchon's big books..."
>
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