tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post5057484774161859408..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: I play with everything I could have said - writing against disquietAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-10599831100733291612012-04-07T16:43:18.979-05:002012-04-07T16:43:18.979-05:00Just going by his outward personality, writing Dis...Just going by his outward personality, writing <i>Disquiet</i> is just what Soares is least likely to do. So I began to focus on the writing as central, helped along by Soares's incessant circling of the subject of writing.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-84243517438306293802012-04-06T13:06:53.787-05:002012-04-06T13:06:53.787-05:00That's such great comment about the last line,...That's such great comment about the last line, that Soares plays "like a cat" with what he could have said. It fits well with the overall amorphousness of the book, which can almost be seen as a vast collection of efforts to play with saying the same thing a different way (it occurs to me now, like Arturo Belano's observation in <i>The Savage Detectives</i> about the novel being written in <i>The Shining</i>, endless variations on the same idea?). Soares, the non-actor, does engage in at least one concrete activity: writing. And thus <i>The Book of Disquiet</i>.seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.com