Comments on: A Mirror Darkly http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/26/605/ One more bite of the apple. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:58:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: david i http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/26/605/#comment-23820 david i Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:54:01 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/26/605/#comment-23820 So, that's your gentle way of hinting that it's the abalone-entrails thingie. That IS a problem with blogs, isn't it? Not the abalone bit, but the part where you reference the way things drop off the page and into archaeology. Every blog needs a "Greatest Hits" sidebar, but I'm not sure how this would be implemented. So, that’s your gentle way of hinting that it’s the abalone-entrails thingie.

That IS a problem with blogs, isn’t it? Not the abalone bit, but the part where you reference the way things drop off the page and into archaeology.

Every blog needs a “Greatest Hits” sidebar, but I’m not sure how this would be implemented.

]]> By: David Thayer http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/26/605/#comment-23765 David Thayer Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:43:09 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/26/605/#comment-23765 David, your interpretation is more interesting than my post. Somewhere in the archives of this blog lie the bones of my theory that THE STRANGER is the most influential novel of the past 50 years. Maybe a presidential advisor thought the same thing. Then again maybe they watched the FLINTSTONES. Or maybe he read THE STRANGER while watching Fred and Barney trying to drive a dinosaur ( Fred and Barney that is.) Maybe he got tired of all that and leafed through a copy of DER SPIEGEL. We'll never know. David, your interpretation is more interesting than my post. Somewhere in the archives of this blog lie the bones of my theory that THE STRANGER is the most influential novel of the past 50 years. Maybe a presidential advisor thought the same thing. Then again maybe they watched the FLINTSTONES. Or maybe he read THE STRANGER while watching Fred and Barney trying to drive a dinosaur ( Fred and Barney that is.) Maybe he got tired of all that and leafed through a copy of DER SPIEGEL. We’ll never know.

]]> By: david i http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/26/605/#comment-23754 david i Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:54:38 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/26/605/#comment-23754 "E. Howard Hunt passed away last week, or maybe it was early this week..." Is that a parody of the opening of Camus' "The Stranger"? And does it have something to do with the fact that our reigning President recently claimed (rather absurdly) to be reading it? Is there a sneaky subtext here? Or are you sending out messages to some sleeper cell? Or have I had too many abalone entrails? “E. Howard Hunt passed away last week, or maybe it was early this week…”

Is that a parody of the opening of Camus’ “The Stranger”? And does it have something to do with the fact that our reigning President recently claimed (rather absurdly) to be reading it?

Is there a sneaky subtext here? Or are you sending out messages to some sleeper cell?

Or have I had too many abalone entrails?

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