“… she said to a man, what do mean really want from women, and he said, blowjobs, and she said, you can get that from a man.” p. 397
“they sat in their cubicles and stared at memos pinned to the corkboard, wondering why they’d sold out if this is how it felt to be a sellout.” p.527
its sentences like these that make the book a worthwhile read.
meanwhile i can’t seem to decide, if the fucked up narration is delillo trying to be clever or if it is in fact clever.
> if the fucked up narration is delillo trying to be clever or if it is in fact clever.
my thoughts exactly. i think it is clever but on a level sort of foreign to me.
have you finished it yet?
>i think it is clever but on a level sort of foreign to me.
thats a nice way to say that…
>have you finished it yet?
nope, i am still working on it. and it almost does feel like work
> and it almost does feel like work
yeah, well, you have a better training in english than i do. it has been a difficult (yet worth) exercice for my sorry unamerican ass. 😉