a shrine of insignificance

I’ve just finished American Gods by Gaiman. The book was fabulous. Gaiman’s ideas are brilliant and intoxicating. The idea that the manifestion of our personal Gods walk the earth looking for what they need to sustain theirselves, whether it be sex, blood, or a saucer of milk is inspired. It rings with noir, science fiction, and a bit of delusion that engulfs the reader in a world where the line between reality and the abstract world of symbols is no longer distinct.

My next reading project is Me Talk Pretty One Day by Sedaris. He managed to offend me in the first chapter as he declares that Speech Therapy, which I underwent for five years as a child, was just a way for the schools to try to make homosexual children straight. The line of logic is Sedaris is gay, and has a natural lisp, and since everyone knows a gay people lisp, then anyone with a natural lisp is secretly gay and either closeted by speech therapy or was like him and refused to learn how to speak properly. While I personally had what people in Texas refer to as a Boston accent and not a Lisp, in fact some of my vowels still come out a bit Bostonian, I still find the theory that Sedaris expounds as crap. Maybe he retracts it later in the novel, but still I was offended.

plb

Filed under: General on July 30th, 2004