426 "“If we were told that Einstein secretly carries a very small pet in his pocket, would we seek to discover what it is? Do you feel all right? Would you be embarrassed or rather thrilled by yourself if you were caught by Einstein with your hand in his coat pocket? Would you prefer to explain yourself in such a moment to Einstein, to Freud or to Picasso? Are you not past the point of explaining yourself in earnest? Would you like to go to the big new grocery store and marvel at packaging? How have we gotten so stoned, on nothing? Can what we have come to be explained merely by fatigue?” -Padgett Powell The Interrogative Mood RUN and buy and than hide in cloiser'd silence and read: then re-read and listen and think and re-again and digest and sit on the table (the book, no you) and read again and then walk and look and smell and sence and look at, finely, the world around you and then open your selves and be enfolded... it is a magnificent book... savor it http://www.harpercollins.ca/books/9780061859410/The_Interrogative_Mood/index.aspx bob 8 2009-10-24T16:31:46Z 0 2009-10-24T16:34:49Z true 30425 false 4753 2009-10-25T20:54:09Z toronto true 2010-04-24T00:00:00Z false the-interrogative-mood 1 2009-10-25T20:54:09Z 1771