tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post3085766302385375438..comments2024-03-14T02:24:22.876-07:00Comments on Essay Daily: Talk About the Essay: Nicole Walker & Ander Monson on Rebecca Solnit's THE FARAWAY NEARBYUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-54992419900279466992014-03-21T20:35:49.395-07:002014-03-21T20:35:49.395-07:00Read the book twice. I found it insane to jump bac...Read the book twice. I found it insane to jump back and forth between the main text and the bottom story.The only way the ticker tape worked for me was to read it separately. I liked after, and found it quite beautiful and affecting that way; it picked up resonance from the more shambling big narrative above. Richard Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295157685034187345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-43286348551673886322014-03-11T01:37:56.255-07:002014-03-11T01:37:56.255-07:00Such a wonderful conversation. Thank you for it. &...Such a wonderful conversation. Thank you for it. "Maybe that's what Solnit's ticker tape finally argues--that texts run forward through time. Time doesn't stop, why should the words?"theresahttp://www.theresakishkan.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-34197758957675278452014-03-10T15:48:48.681-07:002014-03-10T15:48:48.681-07:00Rebecca Solnit responded (to those wondering): Tha...Rebecca Solnit responded (to those wondering): Thanks! It's amazing to be scrutinized so thoroughly… That's quite a consideration. The "ticker-tape" I thought of as being like the thread that a book's spine is sewn with, binding it all together, and this is a book much occupied with threads and sewing, weaving, and spinning as literary metaphors and life metaphors. The 13 chapters are disparate; this 14th one contains something of all of them thematically and runs along all of them to also question the form of the book, as the chapters do, and call attention to the little journey that is reading through the bigger journeys that are the narrative. Or that's what I think I was doing, or intended to do-- I think of reading as traveling through the landscape of a book, and this calls attention to that process (as did the continuous line of quotes running across the bottom of Wanderlust; both lines invite readers to think about how they travel and decide about it--they have the option of regarding the line as just an ornamental freeway planting, though I'd prefer not to think of it as iceplant)."Anderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13162102610439637214noreply@blogger.com