Comments on: An Odd Transaction http://www.southoftheloop.com/2007/03/22/an-odd-transaction/ Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:56:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: carolstreet http://www.southoftheloop.com/2007/03/22/an-odd-transaction/comment-page-1/#comment-191 carolstreet Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:37:59 +0000 http://southoftheloop.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/an-odd-transaction/#comment-191 oh, that's good. i was just asked by someone today why i don't eat meat. if only i had read your blog earlier, i would have had a snappier comeback. should we ask meat-eaters why they eat meat? oh, that’s good.
i was just asked by someone today why i don’t eat meat. if only i had read your blog earlier, i would have had a snappier comeback.
should we ask meat-eaters why they eat meat?

]]> By: John http://www.southoftheloop.com/2007/03/22/an-odd-transaction/comment-page-1/#comment-192 John Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:02:08 +0000 http://southoftheloop.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/an-odd-transaction/#comment-192 When a lengthy quote interrupts a narrative, it can be difficult to get through. For some reason, the first thing that came to mind is the poetry and other purported 19th C. documents in A.S. Byatt's <I>Possession</I>. I wanted to say, "Good job, Miss Byatt, you've done a stunning recreation of Victorian literature, now can we get back to the plot?" But I like the idea of a book that's made up of a series of formal addresses, or Nicholson Baker's <i>Vox</i> and <i>Checkpoint</i>, which are nothing but conversation -- because there's no larger narrative frame that's tugging you back to it. When a lengthy quote interrupts a narrative, it can be difficult to get through. For some reason, the first thing that came to mind is the poetry and other purported 19th C. documents in A.S. Byatt’s Possession. I wanted to say, “Good job, Miss Byatt, you’ve done a stunning recreation of Victorian literature, now can we get back to the plot?”

But I like the idea of a book that’s made up of a series of formal addresses, or Nicholson Baker’s Vox and Checkpoint, which are nothing but conversation — because there’s no larger narrative frame that’s tugging you back to it.

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