Better Than Friday - 89 (Patreon)

Good afternoon everyone - I've surfaced from an ocean of cardboard moving boxes.

Now living in an area that feels more country than city. 

The silence is exquisite. 

Thanks for your support, have a great weekend. 

1. Next Up - William Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying'

Evocative, minimal, gorgeous writing. 

"The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning." - William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

I'm enjoying this much more than The Sound and the Fury, though not as much (yet) as Absalom, Absalom!  

“I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall.” —William Faulkner on As I Lay DyingAs I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn  by each of the family members—including Addie herself—as well as others the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic.

- Amazon

2. The Most Terrifying Video I've Ever Seen 

'That's from about here...Roughly, to about here'.

OH MY GOD (furiously clambers back to reading chair)

3. Antipodes Press 

An indie publisher giving new life to recovered gems. 

4. Reading about the literary critic Edmund Wilson 

The literary critic Edmund Wilson was a recent recommendation from a patron. 

I've never read him, it appears that I definitely should. 

Wilson's critical works helped foster public appreciation for several novelists: Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Vladimir Nabokov.

- Wikipedia

5. I'm not one for 'Stuff', especially cars, but this Tesla cybertruck retractable camper is making me drool.  

If you were to zoom in close on this picture from my walk, you'll notice the spying form of a Turkey Vulture. 

Not at all unsettling.