Review: 5 minutes to read, days to process
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2012
You'll have to read this more than once, just to be clear.I had a hard time digesting this at first, as I do all abstract pieces. The best way to approximate the genre is Ernest Hemingway's short story, that reads only: "For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn."Moving beyond "show, don't tell", the author suggests, but does not show. This is not a novel or narrative, with beginning, conflict, and end, but rather a guide to a world that only the author can see, and is kind enough to allow the reader a glimpse into. If this isn't your speed, you will find no enjoyment in this book, but if you can open your mind and imagine how the pieces might connect to each other and to our world, you will find much to ponder.The entry "Jackets" and other discussions of the same are particularly interesting, as they seem to indicate the body, the different species - air-jackets for birds, dirt-jackets for the burrowers. Yet they are but jackets to be "worn" or "lost", by all the forest's inhabitants. This piece may only be ten pages long, but it is so, so wide.