Oh Em Gee

Okay, so I know I'm really late. I should have written about David Foster Wallace's Host a long time ago. But I kind of was never really in the mood. Which I know is a poor excuse, but let's move on.

So, about Host. It was interesting to a certain extent. I realize that most perople liked the structure of the article (i.e. the myriad of boxes). But I didn't. In fact, I pretty much hated it. I mean, everytime I was getting into it, a box popped up, and then you read that and a box pops up within that box and then one inside that box and so on. Then before I knew it, I had no idea what I was originally reading about. Which sucked. I do know the boxes added a sort of parenthetical element (sort of like Wallace's own internal thoughts), but still, they threw me off. And I don't appreciate that.

It's funny how Ziegler like always blamed his getting fired on someone else. I mean, I think that's what most people do. Not just with getting fired. Most people just have this sense of detecting faults in others but never within themselves. The world would be a lot better off if people were more apt to look upon their own faults and wrong doings and try to correct them and better themselves. Progression as a people would benefitted so much more.

He also didn't believe he was racist. But was it not obvious by the things he would say? He believes one thing and yet conveys someonthing completely different. And that's just annoying. If you're going to be racist, that's on you, but at least own up to it. You know?

Anyway, I was tempted to go on a rant about how people say one thing but do another, but honestly, I'm a bit too tired. So, I'll save that for another time (and believe me, I have a lot to say about that).

Fin

Bartleby, The Scrivener...

A lot can be said about Melville's short story, Bartleby the Scrivener. For instance, one could rant on and on about the sadness the Bartleby cast over the entire story, or how the narrator's ill-tempered employees, Turkey and Nippers, made no sense, but I choose to see it in a different light. Yes, the story possessed a sense of malancholy, but I also found it humorous, and those were my favorite parts.

Call me weird (most people do anyway), but I liked the story due to the fact that in a way there were many bits of comedic relief scattered about the story. Prima facie, this isn't easily recognized. I loved Bartleby's consitensy. How he kept repeating, no matter what was asked of him, the "[He'd] prefer not to..." This in an of itself made me laugh. The narrator tried a myriad of different approaches to get some sort of reaction out of Bartleby, but to no avail. And the other employees were full of comedy, especially during Nippers during the morning and Turkey in the afternoon, when their temperments were at the worst. But to add the icing on the cake of the hidden humor, was when the narrator decided that since he could not get Bartleby to leave his offices, he would relocate himself. Lol, that was just hysterical. Am I allowed to say lol? Whatever, it's my blog...

Anyway, before I digress any furthur, let me say that I think this was an overall interesting story. It allowed me to step into a different world, into a different mind, and that is what I love most about reading. However, I do believe that if the story was more up to date, it would have been much easier to follow and understand. Maybe if someone had re-written the piece. And then in that case, a comparison could have been done. But this does not diminish the fact that I did like the story...