January 12, 2009
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So sleepy today. So very sleepy Monday non-madness. Everything is on slo-mo. The clock is going backwards. My lunch break went into reverse. I think things are beginning to melt, starting with my eyeballs, moving onto my digits.
Yesterday I read a book in one day. I’ve never read a book that quickly before. I had got up with the intention of writing, and did manage to edit a short story, but I couldn’t get into my novel so I decided to do some research instead. I’m writing about an imaginary city. There are a lot of books written about cities, some fiction, some non-fiction. But when I started reading Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (and I had read Calvino before – The Cloven Viscount – a wonderful, bizarre, surreal short story – so I should have known I’d be impressed) I found I just couldn’t put it down. And then, about three quarters of the way through, it became an aim, or perhaps an obsession, to finish it.
Check out this freaky beautiful art by Ray Caesar:
Comments (8)
weird artsy stuff.
@Okiebu - well put!
i love his work, he’s a great artist
I love the doll in the red dress. Pretty good stuff.
I wish my Monday was moving in slow-mo.
Which reminds me I need to get back to work.
what would you recommend from calvino. i just recently read “if on a winter’s night a traveler” and wasn’t impressed. i think he failed in his idea but still wrote a remarkable story.
@a_postmodern_nobody - To be honest I’ve only read Invisible Cities and The Cloven Viscount. The Viscount is novella-length and is very surreal. Like a Gogol or a Schultz. I would definitely recommend that one.
Strange and interesting art… I like it.
very cool pictures. i like your site.