Comments on: Week 4: Pages 163-228 http://www.bolanobolano.com/2010/02/16/week-4/ The work, life, and literature of the writer Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: David Savarese http://www.bolanobolano.com/2010/02/16/week-4/comment-page-1/#comment-800 David Savarese Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:16:43 +0000 http://www.bolanobolano.com/?p=604#comment-800 The poet as a stand-in for Amalfitano. Whoa. The poet as a stand-in for Amalfitano. Whoa.

]]> By: Dan Summers http://www.bolanobolano.com/2010/02/16/week-4/comment-page-1/#comment-773 Dan Summers Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:55:14 +0000 http://www.bolanobolano.com/?p=604#comment-773 As if I didn't already admire you enough, to find that you are a Pinky & the Brain fan deepens my affection and esteem. That show is genius, and a worthy salve to a frazzled brain. As if I didn’t already admire you enough, to find that you are a Pinky & the Brain fan deepens my affection and esteem. That show is genius, and a worthy salve to a frazzled brain.

]]> By: Maria Bustillos http://www.bolanobolano.com/2010/02/16/week-4/comment-page-1/#comment-760 Maria Bustillos Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:43:53 +0000 http://www.bolanobolano.com/?p=604#comment-760 I don't even know, man. Certain moments in this book I've been totally tempted to put it aside and watch like Pinky & the Brain cartoons until I can recover my composure. I don’t even know, man. Certain moments in this book I’ve been totally tempted to put it aside and watch like Pinky & the Brain cartoons until I can recover my composure.

]]> By: Steve http://www.bolanobolano.com/2010/02/16/week-4/comment-page-1/#comment-757 Steve Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:46:47 +0000 http://www.bolanobolano.com/?p=604#comment-757 Great tidbits. I particularly liked the characterization of the one as a “mission statement” for <i>2666</i>. That inspired me to point this one out. Sorry it is so long. <blockquote>What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing, they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.</blockquote> If the other is the mission statement, this one is Bolaño's manifesto. Great tidbits. I particularly liked the characterization of the one as a “mission statement” for 2666. That inspired me to point this one out. Sorry it is so long.

What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing, they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.

If the other is the mission statement, this one is Bolaño’s manifesto.

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