don delillo’s underworld1 min read

don delillo: underworld “… 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.

3 Replies to “don delillo’s underworld1 min read

  1. > 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?

  2. >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

  3. > 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. 😉

Leave a Reply to klav Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.