I finished José Saramago’s Seeing yesterday. This novel, which was published in Portuguese in 2004 but released in an English translation this year, is the follow-up to Blindness, which I reviewed a couple of weeks ago. The events in Seeing occur four years following the epidemic of blindness that swept the population of the unidentified… Continue reading Book Review: “Seeing”
Random Thursday
Random Thursday will commence shortly but first I need to inform you that I’ve run into some problems with the next installment of Fire Ant Theatre. I’m in desperate need of a Spanish/Klingon dictionary, and it wouldn’t hurt if you could direct me to an audio loop of Red Skelton’s impersonation of Marilyn Monroe. Now,… Continue reading Random Thursday
Cruel Nature
It’s a tough world out there, and sometimes your best efforts to cope with it can backfire.
Book Review: “Blindness”
I started reading José Saramago’s Blindness around 9:00 p.m. on Friday and finished it about an hour ago (it’s Sunday, about 3:30 p.m.). 326 pages in less than 48 hours. That’s not exactly a speed-reading record, but it should be taken as an indication of the mesmerizing quality of this novel about what happens when… Continue reading Book Review: “Blindness”
Springtime in West Texas
Springtime, and a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of pit vipers.
An Artistic Approach to Fighting Crime
Wherein is proposed a couple of dubious solutions for highspeed freeway chases.
Abbye Update
Readers ask about Abbye, and we respond.
Random Thursday
Random is as random does.
Funereal Observations
Funeral directors have challenging jobs, to say the least, but I never before considered that engineering might be part of the package.
Intriguing “Blindness”
This post makes me want to read this book. Have any of you read it? Technorati tag: Jose Saramago