I sing the blog electric!
I typically get Harper’s magazine at work, but a week or two ago I was at the book store with some time to kill. There and elsewhere. So I figured, Oh, what the hell, and I bought the latest issue. Not such a hard decision, but definitely made easier when I saw that the piece of fiction in that particular issue was a new one by Jonathan Lethem. He has a new novel coming out, entitled Chronic City, so I assumed it would be a selection from that. Well, having read the story, called “The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear,” I doubt it. But it’s interesting, nonetheless. Very interesting.
from here.
The first paragraph:
“I do not think I shall visit my blog anymore. It is not so much the smell that discourages me—gulls have skeletonized the corpse in the entranceway, and the lapping tide has salt-rinsed the floorboards where the intruder’s blood was once caked as thick as fruit-leather—as it is a certain malodor of memory persisting there. The stink of my disappointment being that stink which the sea’s salt can never rinse.”
If I’ve learned anything from this story, it’s that your blog is your fortress, and you are a warrior. Protect your kingdom. And remember: You are not a mariner. Your blog is perhaps not a boat, but regardless, the tide is coming in…
Another line: “I offer this, my blog, to the world, but I do not require the world to need it or accept it, for it is my very own blog.”
from here.
