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Library musings
Went to the library the other day. Some thoughts on the matter:
1) Famous last words: "Well, okay, maybe just one more book..."
2) In retrospect, I'm impressed that the librarians didn't laugh at me back in July when I returned Improving Your Memory for Dummies three months late.
3) Crandall Public Library's magazine shelf now carries Out; they already had Ms., Utne, and Mother Jones. Between that and their indie-nirvana video collection, I'm ready to drive over there and kiss 'em all smack on the mouth.
4) The one nice thing about having run up (and paid off) a $111.30 library fine is that now, when they inform me that I owe them $3.60, I dance.
5) I must not have been thinking clearly. I was aware that I hadn't been reading much fiction, mostly because my attention span has been lacking as of late. So I resolved that I was going to do something about that. I don't know how that equation adds up to me grabbing a copy of Infinite Jest. (I had to carry it home. My back hurts now. It's all![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catamorphism's fault.)
6) Seriously, kids, everyone go kiss a librarian. You'll be happy you did.
1) Famous last words: "Well, okay, maybe just one more book..."
2) In retrospect, I'm impressed that the librarians didn't laugh at me back in July when I returned Improving Your Memory for Dummies three months late.
3) Crandall Public Library's magazine shelf now carries Out; they already had Ms., Utne, and Mother Jones. Between that and their indie-nirvana video collection, I'm ready to drive over there and kiss 'em all smack on the mouth.
4) The one nice thing about having run up (and paid off) a $111.30 library fine is that now, when they inform me that I owe them $3.60, I dance.
5) I must not have been thinking clearly. I was aware that I hadn't been reading much fiction, mostly because my attention span has been lacking as of late. So I resolved that I was going to do something about that. I don't know how that equation adds up to me grabbing a copy of Infinite Jest. (I had to carry it home. My back hurts now. It's all
catamorphism's fault.)6) Seriously, kids, everyone go kiss a librarian. You'll be happy you did.
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I met David Foster Wallace because I was at a dinner celebrating his mother winning the Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year award...she was the national winner for two-year colleges. I was there because I had been her student and had written one of the three student letters supporting her nomination. (She truly is the best professor I've ever had. Parkland is very lucky to have her.)
Before knowing them, I didn't know that a propensity for endnotes (or content notes, as Sally Foster Wallace prefers to call them) could be genetically transmitted. _Infinite Jest_ is the only novel I know of with hundreds of endnotes.
I still haven't had the nerve to try reading it. Good luck.
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