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How do you read the Book?
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guess this isn't the highest traffic riff around. in any case, this is one of my favorite books. if you compare it to, say, cortazar's hopscotch, i think you find pessoa has a more interesting center. you read until you're done, until the thing has revealed itself to you. less so in cortazar in which you read in a differently prescribed order for a different end...well, if it revives i'll be interested to hear what others say and also to perjure myself further.
I think that is the perfect way to read BofD. I've read about half of the entries since I first picked it up a couple of years ago. I always have other books that I'm "reading", and just go to BofD at times I feel the pull. It never dissapoints! Keep enjoying. It's the only book I own (of many) that I dog-ear pages in!
DBN
ps, have you read Saramago's "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis"? R.R. was another of Pessoa's heteronymns. It's top-notch.
well I cant realy help you their, it just come to me. well thank for joining this group. the only person that is going to responde to your post is me. the other guy dosen't get on any more.
