And also Eco's _Foucault's Pendulum_, at the risk of offending Rishab. :) I started that book at least 3 times before giving up for good.
but the interesting thing about Foucault's Pendulum is that it is interleaved with passages of amazing lucidity. for example, if you have a copy handy, you can try looking at section 63. titled "What does the fish remind you of?". this section is under the chapter Gevurah. in my cheap paperback edition its page 299. in this section Lia, the narrator's girlfriend confronts him with his growing obsession with secret numbers and their supposed deep significance and proceeds to 'solve' the puzzle for him by turning his gaze to the 'cosmology' of her own body (she is pregnant with their kid) and its simple but profound rhythms and patterns. also, section 63 starts with a quote from Heller's Catch 22 "What does the fish remind you of?" "Other fish." 'And what does other fish remind you of?" "Other fish". On 7/22/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: [ on 12:10 AM 7/22/2007 ] > > you'e trying to say. And I say this as someone who has struggled his way > > through the EPW, texts by Félix Guattari, and IBM technical manuals. > >Please sir, please sir, can I add Finnegan's Wake to the list? And also Eco's _Foucault's Pendulum_, at the risk of offending Rishab. :) I started that book at least 3 times before giving up for good. But the most amazingly opaque thing I have ever read is Guattari's _Molecular Revolution_, which turned a string of purportedly English words into completely incomprehensible ciphertext. As a crypto manqué, I can only applaud. I got rid of the book as soon as I decently could, byt gifting it to Herr Doktor Kelty - on the reasoning that he ought to be immune to its effects by now [1]. Udhay [1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/12267 -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
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