That's weird! Two mentions of Hopscotch, the conceptual 1963 book by Julio Cortazar, this week. One occurs in Doree Shafrir's interview with the new head of the company that is rebooting the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. (I KNOW!) The other occurs in this fine Dan Visel (not Vin Diesel) essay on tabbed browsing, which is very good, except that it contains the heavy, ponderous, head-lolling line "In thinking about the problem of what's happening to reading now, it might be useful to go back a century, to the dawn of Cubism in painting." It might indeed be useful, but can you pour me a coffee with that, hon?
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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And people whine about Infinite Jest's annoying footnotes!
I F-ing love this book! and no, i've not finished it.
I thought about inventing a Kindle app for tracking your reading of it. I don't want to click on that link and learn it's been done....
um, this counts as a copyright, right? way to keep a secret, dork.
There's prior art: in Around the Day in Eighty Worlds, Cortázar shows Juan Esteban Fassio's plan for a "Hopscotch-o-matic," designed for a Kindle-free world:
http://withhiddennoise.net/2009/08/25/a-machine-for-reading-hopscotch/
which looks immensely complicated. Also, Choire, that essay's two years old!
and with room a maté holder. genius.
This is totally like something that happened in that Franz Schreker opera.
OMG, no you didn't.
Oh no! Visel lost me with the looking up the word in the dictionary intro.
Ooooh yes. The worst lead EVER used by EVERYONE, most especially local "humor" columnists
I put "humor" in quotes because they're not all that funny !
OK. This is odd. I just bought this book a couple of days ago. Get out of my head!