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big night on the town last night...got my car washed (kind of) my "My Other Car Is a Pynchon Novel" sticker finally on it...all sparkly and cool and ready for action...though not sparkly...by the way, i'm never getting my car machine washed again...fuck those things that don't fucking work...today Mary Beth and i went on a big adventure around the city...i discovered there's a Downtown Books (as you might imagine, a bookstore downtown) so we went there...it's a used bookstore...and i got some books: The Odyssey by Homer, Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, Notes from the Underground and The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Germinal by Émile Zola, 3 Lives by Gertrude Stein, In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje, Inspector and Other Plays by Nikolai Gogol, and Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino...then all the way to the opposite side of town to target...oh, also while out there we went to Chang's for some wonderful food and bubbletea...hadn't been there in years...uh...¡yúm! hrm...our internet connection's intermittent...let's see if i ever get this posted...hrm...it was 8:58 when i started...we'll see how this goes... ...and that was last night...now it seems to be working again...
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Do you like Haruki Murakami? Have we been through this? I seem to remember you reading Kafka on the Shore.
Have you read any ondaatje before buying In The Skin of a Lion? I think I bought it but never read it a long long time ago after reading The English Patient, since it's has a few of the same characters.
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have not read any Ondaatje...though as i've heard he actually is good in spite of having written The English Patient and that his other stuff, In the Skin of a Lion in particular, is actually very good...never thought i'd be getting books by "the guy who wrote The English Patient"...not that i've actually even seen the movie or anything...but, uh...
also, it's funny 'cuz Downtown Books used to be Midtown Books and was just down the street from me (i guess it's technically still down the street from be, but WAY down the street...) i think i went there like once and they didn't have anything i wanted nor did i really care for the atmosphere of the place...but now they have books and i enjoy its setup! go figure...(of course finding stuff at a used bookstore is always based on chance...anyway...)
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It looks like Anne and I will be visiting Memphis next month. Can we crash at your place?
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