last days

like i know its based on kurts suicide, but i was wondering exactally how much of it is based on what happened around his plot line. like what the friends did in the movies, was that what happened in real life? and im not just talking about the sex scene. like did the yellow pages guy actually come?

i just realised that i gave u my story before i really developed it, oops.

now back to the blog already in progress. the footage that was playing on the TV was that the real footage about his suicide?

i found the idea of the film to be very interesting. it shows a depressing story and u already know the end. so its not like the person watching it afterwards is gonna be in a good mood.

i saw this comic and it is incredibly postmodern/ mise en abime
http://www.biggercheese.com/index.php?comic=294
and this one too
http://www.biggercheese.com/index.php?comic=300

Chapter 4

Uzzi-Tuzii is reading the "chapter" "the reader" just read to a group of people, im thinking its a small group of people bc his office isnt that big and the reader, i, can easily notice when lumilla arrives. we find out that Leanig From a Steep Slope was written before the author killed themself. it was found along side other unfinished and unpublished works of theirs. i bet that some of the other chapters have a similar backstory to them.

i know how im going to to my shadow box. i have a really cool idea. ill probably post an image or two up over the course of working on it.

leaning from a steep slope

Its written in a very similar style to a journal. The character is drawing conclusions and ends to different and completely unrelated events and “signs”. They have a very mathematical/scientific way of looking at things. I must say that italo calvino is an incredible writer. He has written all of these first chapters with a different style.

im not sure exactally what you are looking for with the blogs for the "chapters" story/plot lines. im hoping that this is enough.

Chapter 3

More of the "Chapters" story is being unraveled. the last chapter that was read was at first thought to be from a Cimmerian book, but it just shares names because the actuall Cimmerian book was never translated.

i find it interesting that there is a character who has learnt how to not read.

Outside the town of Malbork

I am begining to hate these first chapters. Some books start slow, typically books one would read for school, but all these chapters grab my attention imediatly. i wish that they were actually real books. I am not exactally sure what i am supposed to do with these chapters, because they arent exactally all that post modern. The narration does mention the reader a few times but besides that i dont find it to be post modern, although the first paragraph was in the same style as the chapter before.

This chapter reminded me of "Translations" by Brian Friel.

Chapter 2

i dont really get the whole thing about the page numbers, but i guess that it was required for there to be any kind of story for that chapter. we find out some thing important(well it is a post modern book so it might not be) in this chapter. we find out that the reader/narrator is a male. but thats all we know.

If on a winter's night a stanger

I like that the book tells you how it begins. the picture on the cover complements it fantastically.
so i guess the character, "I", is waiting for some thing to happen, or is not waiting for not nothing to not happen, or not. the naration jumps between first person to omnipitent third. the way that Italo transitions between them is crazy. its in his head then its in yours. i love the last line on page 19; "first one or first the other; but what does that signify?"

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! why did the chapter have to end? it was just getting to be an amazing plot.

Italo Calvino chapter 1?

this book is fun. so far its just telling me how to read the book. i have to say thats a fun way to start a post-modern book. the book store description is absolutly brilliant. the descriptions of the other books is really funny.
i like that the book tells you what you should do before you read the book. i like that at the end of several paragraphs it ends with an equivalent to "or not". the way that the chapters are numbered is really post modern.

Easy Rider

i didnt live durring the 60s 0r 70s but i bet that was a really good summary type thing like it had events that really represented what was going on socially. in a beastie boys song some of the lyrics are
"Outta the car longhair your goose is cooked"
Read me my rights fingerprinted and booked"
i was gonna ask my dad if he was ever called a longhair. but he fell asleep. i bet he was called it a few times. i think that its pathetic that in our country(of the free and brave) the majority or the ppl making the decisions and those who think they are in power are afraid or those who act free and represent freedom. they are afraid of the free, its just pitiful.

the lot of crying 2@@@@2@@

the first thing i noticed in this chapter was that the songs had titles before them. in all of the books that i have read, more than you think, the song or inserted text in the same way wasnt ever titled. the writing seams similar to the exercise we did in class, with the list of things we needed to put in our piece. it seems that the author started with a list and tried to get them in the chapters.

TCOL 49 ONE!!!!1!!!

i am hoping that this book will be an easier read than #9 dream. i know that the reading schedule is not as heavy. this will make it easier to keep up with the reading. i wrote that before i started reading, and now I'm 2 chaps behind.
this is an interesting book, in kinda the weird interesting way. although there isn't allot of descriptions, there is a lot of info thrown at you. i had to read several parts again.

#9 dream: lost property.

The more I read, the more I wish some one would turn it into a movie. The author really can really convey the image to the reader. But its soo hard to follow, so that's where I think it would help if it was a movie. But then I think it would end up very similar to “the science of sleep”, where it’s some times hard to differentiate between reality and dreams.

“Night does not mean sleep in Tokyo. Punks slalom down shopping malls. Hostesses stifle yawns and glance at their patrons Rolexes. Yakuza gangsters fight on deserted construction sites. High schoolers younger than me engage in gymnastic love-hotel sex bouts.” Since I know that the yakuza part happens I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the rest are foreshadowing as well. Now I'm going to go out on an even further limb, I kind of feel like Anju, and say that the beginning is supposed to happen after this chapter. I say this because he talks about a hacker in the first chapter, during the fantasy when he fights Lucy Lui, that got him the codes, but up until this point in chapter two we had know idea he even knew a hacker, or that could have just been the dream?

When the guy ordered the pizza I think I almost threw up. That just sounds soo vile.

One thing that I really don’t get is why his boss flipped out about the announcement. He was helping some one, and even if there was a more important announcement then there would have been some one in there making it.

Right as I got the part when Eiji gets home and his grandma is the bearer of bad news, I stated to listen to a really depressing song. The last paragraph reminds me of the odyssey.

#9 dream: pan opticon

0mg 1 4m 7h3 1337 m4573r. first of i would like to say how friggin descriptive he is. my favorite line would have to be "A galaxy of cream unribbons in my coffee cup". when i read that it reminded me of men in black where the cat has a galaxy on its collar, and i imagined our galaxy being stirred around in his coffee. lol @ the old man playing the "vidboy", lol-ing more @ "bioborgs". he is such a smooth talker with the "ice maiden". somebody needs to turn this into a movie RIGHT NOW!!!1!! i just want to see the part with the lawyer, with jet li as Eiji and Lucy Liu as Ms. Kato. this guy has the most vivid imagination in the world. but for the flood Eiji would have to be jackie chan. if it wasnt for the little symbols it would be very hard to destinguish reality from "imagination". Donkey would have to be played by Lisa Lapenelli. "i mean it." next time on the golb sdrawkcab: #9 Dream: Lost Property. wil our heroe manage to get the answers he desires or will the zirconium towers come crashing down upon him?!