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Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

I'm inside Natan Sharansky's head gettting educated about the different levels of acceptance that national, religious, cultural and ethnic identity have in America, Europe and Israel, and why that is so.
 
In reality I am at work. In virtual reality I am sitting on a green hill eating a braeburn. In hyperreality I am being consumed by the image of an office similar to that featured in The Office.
 
19th century England among the oppressed, self-educated/uneducated working class. Guess?
Mary Barton, Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights
 
I'm a Russian spy in an art exibition in east Berlin-Andrei Makine-Requiem for the east

I'm a butler at his father death bed-The remain of the day-Ishiguro
 
Now I am in an abandoned grocery store, showing my son the delights of a forgotton coke, long lost, but still delicious.

THE ROAD
 
I am with Dr.Glas ,telling lies to a husband that his wife is sick and can't have sex with him for 6 months.
 
I'm in Montana, reminiscing over the time Mr Robert Barclay and I left Nethermuir to go to Montana by way of a steamship out of Greenock.
 
I am a castaway, on the island with Cruso and Friday, wondering why he has not kept so much as a journal or even scratched notches into a pole to mark the passing of the years! :confused:
 
I am in a sky balloon, discussing how several million worlds have been shaken very profoundly by the opening of a window in the sky...
 
I am in Stalinist Moscow talking to Satan disguised as a foreigner.

The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov.

In reality, I'm in Minsk, Belarus...and a bit speachless.
 
I am in a seedy motel room twined on the floor amid a wall-to-wall scatter of clothing and spilled bourbon, the TV tube revealing a father, a dog and Baby Igor trapped inside a darkening submarine as "the water level inexorably rose" and the dog was the first to drown in a great crowd of bubbles, just before Baby Igor was electrocuted, thrashing back and forth and screaming horribly, just before the grieving father gets to say "Your little eyes have seen your daddy for the last time."

I wouldn't have believed it myself, if I hadn't read it on the page. :banghead6mx:

Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchon
 
Sad but true Pontalba, :(
And the spirit of the book doesn't really lift much after that either.
Wiki says the book is viewed as hypermodern, although some say parody of hypermodern. My vote is definitely for parody, poor parody at that, and I am putting it down after about two-thirds, where it turns more toward 'uninteresting character in uninteresting novel.'
My feeling is that it is for a different generation than mine. I've lived in and seen California first hand, and in the time this book is talking about. IMO the book doen't bring much to the table.
On to the next one!
 
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