Alex’s Reviews > The Broom of the System > Status Update

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudos... I met one of these little guys today. He was hanging out between the staggered edges of the pages. Lanced a fruit fly right in front of me. New favorite animal.

I may pay the Ransom Center a visit next week when I travel to Austin. Has anyone had a chance to peruse Dave's collection?

I was expecting this to be waaayyyy worse based on Dave's own gripes with the thing, and it's true that the ratio of head to heart favors the head here, but the DFW personality is fully present in the prose and I'm enjoying every word. It's also economical in a way most of his other work isn't.

I thought I would plow through the remainder of The Tunnel this week, but I have come face to face with the fact that no such action is possible in the universe of Gass. So I will continue digging slowly, and in the meantime I've picked up this and Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings, both of which I can digest and enjoy at a peppier pace.