Monday, April 16, 2007

Analect 2.79x



12 April 2007. Sunny Thursday morning, late start. Up reading Martin Cruz Smith--his first book, Gypsy in Amber. Not quite Arkady--the character in a way doesn't yet have a voice--but still very promising as to wholesale plot evaporations and attentiveness to detail. Lists of words in Romany, for example--and the set piece galore... An imperfect circle, man and bird. Ghirlandiao, no Giotto di Bondone. In a universe of chaos the form must be whole. But here, today, in a world of signs-- Prints From Your Digital Camera, High Volume Scanning, Enlarge the Small Ones to Poster Size... A note of imperfection, Pierre Bonnard in the '90s, how much more so his friend, Eduouard. Preserving the future--rough, wiggly, off-handed...

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