I am not a baboon brandishing a stick.

[constance]

It's gotten to the point where I welcome the chance not to talk about Bachelor No. 2 (no, nothing's decided yet; yes, I am completely frustrated and furious and becoming slowly convinced that lots of people are just amusing themselves at my expense). After this week, full of financial paperwork and fedexing and inspections and hemorrhagings of cash, I am just ready to talk about something else before I go to work today.

Like the dreams I had last night. Two were about heaven (and me a flag-waving agnostic!). In one, God is Stephen Tyler--not like Stephen Tyler, but him, circa maybe 1975-80. He rides back to heaven after gigs in a convertible limo with groupies sucking him and Joe Perry off. And in the other, heaven is a giant Quizno's. And I won't even tell you about the other dream. Just revolting.

Or the restaurant where I had dinner, memorably called Fish'n'Pig and replete with the most disturbing decor. If you have never looked at your reflection by staring into a pig's open maw, I tell you that you have never seen yourself truly.

Or the fact that I want you all to read The Kite Runner so I can discuss it with you, because I haven't quite decided how I feel about it.

Or...I don't know. What have you been up to lately?

Comments

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

Arggh. I'm sorry B #2 is still giving you grief. And I'm surprised no one's turned that "your face in a pig's open maw" scene into a jigsaw-cut wood photo op at a fairytale theme park somewhere. ;)

I have read The Kite Runner! Unburden your ambivalence, my child.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

So okay, loved the first part of the book, but thought that once Amir returned to Afghantistan things got a little farfetched and news-at-elevenish. That's not to say I was truly disappointed, because the book had already built up enough goodwill to get me through the end. But still, the book felt divided into two unequal parts.

Also, I felt that Amir's transition from the pretty nasty boy he was to the adult who atoned for his childhood sins wasn't explored enough. Was it guilt that changed him? His emigration? Learning about Hassan, seeing Sohrab? I'm not sure I really get that, and I can speculate, of course, but it doesn't fit together quite right for me.

What did you think of it?