The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Henry James on steroids



A hundred and sixty pages into it and nothing has happened.

Well, his mother put him to bed.

He ate a madeleine dipped in “decoction of lime flowers.”

Leonie passed away.

All that subordination makes you feel as though an entirely different part of your brain is doing the reading.

Different from the part used when you read something like this, I mean.


And much more so than even in James.

Has anyone ever checked that, empirically?

Beautiful writing about absolutely nothing in the most unutterably boring detail.

No chance I'll finish this.

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