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“The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind“

SPOILER


1. Reference to Shades of Gray
2. Is anyone else now picturing character Fforde wandering around the BookWorld?

I was not expecting this book to be so funny!

They couldn’t dominate Death inside the hospital, but they certainly made her behave.

“T. S. Elliott,” General Peckham said, and hung up. 😂

A Fragment of Life: reminds me of the dreamy, slow and detailed thoughts of the protagonist in to the Lighthouse (I’m aware the latter came after but I read them in the reverse order). More literally, it reminds me of Radiohead’s No Surprises - the slow death and narrowing of modern life brought on by losing sight of the world’s magic and beauty and instead focusing on money and things.

“To say that the interior of the hangar was vast would have been pointless, as the Great Library, Text Grand Central and the CofG also had vast interiors, and continued descriptions of an increasingly hyperbolic nature would be insufferably repetitious.”

Bit like a superhero movie series, perhaps? 😂

“It’s no use trying to explain to her, or talking politics. Already she is adapting herself, as she will to every new regime “ p. 251

“The Nazis may write like schoolboys, but they’re capable of anything. That’s just why they are so dangerous. People laugh at them, right up to the last moment.” P. 217.

Reminds me a lot of recent politics: Brexit, Trump.

“He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart”

“the writer in whose company the prison walls fell down “ Nelson Mandela

If that’s not a good recommendation, I don’t know what is.

Reading this reminds me a little of reading The Odyssey. The book tells me what happened in sequential order without emotion or feeling or any real depth. It’s not what I expected and I’m not particularly enjoying it.