Reprint Time--Helena
A comment from the blogkeeper at Underbelly (thank you Buce) inspired me to look this up. I was fairly certain that I had reviewed the book in the recent past, and so I discovered this. a good book is worth appreciation--over and over and over again. Also, while you are appreciating, you might want to take in Underbelly's look at Helena as well. La Belle Hélène on March 18, 2005 8:11 AM In reading Helena last night I stumbled across a large number of passages I would like to share. But I thought the more important thing to share was an observation. Evelyn Waugh liked this best among his books. There are a good many reasons why this might be so: it is splendidly written--both the prose and the coherence are several notches above some of his earlier, more frenetic work. It is tightly done, with just the right strokes and exactly the right selection of detail. But I suspect the reason Waugh prized this above all the other works is that in t...
I think it's perfectly appropriate that a festival celebrating PKD is held in a place that has banned bicycles from most of its streets, or so one commented claimed.
ReplyDeleteDear Fred,
ReplyDeleteI'll go so far to say that I don't think there is an inappropriate place for such a festival. It's been long in the making and certainly as deserved as other festivals one hears about. (I'm think John Updike in this particular case.)
I'd just be a little leery of what such a festival might summon together. (The leery there is, as you might have guessed, a pun.)
shalom,
Steven
Steven,
ReplyDeleteMight give new meaning to that old John Denver song?
Dear Fred,
ReplyDeleteIt hadn't occurred to me, but yes indeed, a completely refurbished meaning.
Steven