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NOTE: This is only the first half of the review, the full review can be read here: http://litarture.blogspot.com/2008/1...l-austers.html



The Music of Chance will always be one of the most memorable books I have ever read. Why? Because I've never found a book so disturbing (not even the likes of Ellis' American Psycho) that I had to stop reading it. I can ...

The knife twists
inch by inch
carving flesh out
while I watch
unfeeling
while the blood flows

Numb inside
living heart beats
with each twist of blade
sent further back in time

Soul-surrender
in flashes of fragments
fleeting omens
with no voice
or meaning

Just a flutter
of raven wings
laughter rings
across the wasteland
where all ...

I just love this line from the Red Hot Chill Pepper song of the same name:

True men don't kill coyotes.

This is just an awsome verse that comes right before the line:

Passion dripping from the coyote's eyes
He can taste his blood
An' blood never lies
Pale face die

Working here at the computer store is an interesting hobby, and for a disabled man like myself, a ray of sunshine in a dark world. I can work here and they fully understand my limitations, and then work with me as I endeavor to climb that mountain that all depressed people know so very well.

I have my moments when I wonder exactly what is going on with the minds of our customers. We do get our share of the odd and outré.

Take, for example, our first customer ...

Where was I before?
Ah, right, a lot to say then. Okay, where to start?
Most recent first.
Last week guess who escaped 3 times? Yes, Rocky. First 2 times his owner came to get him (his real owner, the older son, but when my neighbours complained to him about the dog he said it wasn’t his and it was “theirs”, he gestured in my direction but I think he was gesturing through me to his house because there’s no way that dog is mine and they know it, and that he was just coming to ...