Orhan Pamuk's The New Life
What if life? A period of time.
What is time? An accident.
What is an accident? A life. A new life.
Today we are altogether defeated, the West has swallowed us up, trampled on us in passing. They have invaded us down to our soup, our candy, our underpants; they have finished us off. But someday, someday perhaps a thousand years from now, we will avenge ourselves; we will bring an end to this conspiracy by taking them out of our soup, our chewing gum, our souls.
2 months to read the first half of the book, 2 hours to read the second half. I've never had such a lopsided experience with a book. I've also rarely read such a mind warp of a book either.
What is time? An accident.
What is an accident? A life. A new life.
Today we are altogether defeated, the West has swallowed us up, trampled on us in passing. They have invaded us down to our soup, our candy, our underpants; they have finished us off. But someday, someday perhaps a thousand years from now, we will avenge ourselves; we will bring an end to this conspiracy by taking them out of our soup, our chewing gum, our souls.
2 months to read the first half of the book, 2 hours to read the second half. I've never had such a lopsided experience with a book. I've also rarely read such a mind warp of a book either.
posted by tovah @ 2:12 PM
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