Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Testy festy

Stranger than Fiction begins with an introduction in which Chuck P. talks about how he has gotten several ideas for stories, and it makes him sound more like a regular person and less like some guy who just sits in a think box and comes up with these crazy ideas and metaphors for life. Most books have a picture of the author in the back and I had never seenw aht he looked like, I flipped to the back of the book and there he was, standing there with a slight grin starring back at me. He looked completely normal, just like another guy. If I would have seen him on the street I wouldent have thought anything of it...

There are no real characters within the first essay, he is setting the scene within a festival in Montana. As I read it on the train back home I took some notes down in a book I wrote...

" the saying reckless abandonment comes to mind, i dont exactly know what it means but i heard my father use it once and I liked how it sounded."

"no morals, no decency"

"only in america, capatlism comes to mind."

"cameras cost so much just so there is concrete proof, memories of these events, but who would want to have them, just to prove it happened?"

just some ideas as i was reading...

The author had a strong emphasis on the people in line buying stuff, i believe this was on purpose, he listed the price and everything.

It was a weekend full of debauchery, booze, naked women, and people having sex on display.

I feel like this festival is the scum of the earth.

2 comments:

  1. G-What might the emphasis on prices be doing for the reader? Is this to further explain the monetary interruptions of society?

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