tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30395167.post7113368079773011037..comments2023-08-15T07:41:19.933-05:00Comments on <center>Slaves of Golconda</center>: Words steeped in the conditionalQuillhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07601080339912553168noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30395167.post-76285685156844953662007-08-01T20:26:00.000-05:002007-08-01T20:26:00.000-05:00Pour of Tor Located the Songtag quote - it's from ...<B>Pour of Tor</B> Located the Songtag quote - it's from "Where the Stress Falls", and essay Sontag wrote for The New Yorker. And very conveniently found in the collection, <I>Where the Stress Falls</I>.darkorpheushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02565452271408221461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30395167.post-84894716795499817562007-08-01T11:43:00.000-05:002007-08-01T11:43:00.000-05:00Great review. I also love the passages you quoted...Great review. I also love the passages you quoted. I really loved the one about ours being conditional--that stood out to me, too!Gentle Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09102364083044797155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30395167.post-64314116423820216832007-08-01T00:46:00.000-05:002007-08-01T00:46:00.000-05:00Thanks, stefanie and dark orpheus! I have to admit...Thanks, stefanie and dark orpheus! I have to admit that I probably made connections to drama first because drama is what I study, rather because of any inherent theatricality in the book. But perhaps it is all part of the genre-defying nature of the work.<BR/><BR/>As for the Sontag quotation, I too would like to know whether it was a true blurb or a quotation from Sontag's writings. I can't remember whether it said on the back of the book...Sycorax Pinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07734754573631273474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30395167.post-18628825567897786802007-07-31T22:56:00.000-05:002007-07-31T22:56:00.000-05:00Oops, just saw the blurb from Susan Sontag at the ...Oops, just saw the blurb from Susan Sontag at the back of the book.darkorpheushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02565452271408221461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30395167.post-75858279402442893662007-07-31T22:51:00.000-05:002007-07-31T22:51:00.000-05:00Great review. I love some of the passages you quot...Great review. I love some of the passages you quoted - some of which I've also underlined because they just stand out. The bit about travel: "When you travel, your first discovery is that you do not exist" and "that tea bag of a word which steeps in the conditional"<BR/><BR/>I find myself just re-reading those outsanding lines, passages, letting my thoughts just roll around them.<BR/><BR/>The book seems to me to be sifting through memories, and once in a while, a nugget of a memory, a thought - just comes up.<BR/><BR/>I really need to ask the source of the Sontag quote that describes this book as: "a novel of mental weather" - because well, it makes me go "Hmm...." in a good way. :)darkorpheushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02565452271408221461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30395167.post-5809799869575885082007-07-31T19:59:00.000-05:002007-07-31T19:59:00.000-05:00Fantastic review. I find it interesting you made s...Fantastic review. I find it interesting you made so many connections to drama while reading the book. I kept thinking of poetry. And of course both fit since the book is no one thing. You make a good point about how memory doesn't have to be chronological. Our memory does jump around--free association in a way--and that's almost what this book is, but not quite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com