April 10th, 2003 - 9:55 a.m.

Wordy lists; nothing too clever here.

(Note: This list was to be in essay format, but was found to be much too tedious and academic; best if one figures out for oneself.)

Words which must be read:

Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell - for humour

1984 - George Orwell - for contempt

Accordion Crimes - Annie Proulx - to understand happiness

The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde - fearful tragedy and tearful smile

The Portrait of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde - vanity, he ought to know

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - understanding stagnation

White Nights - Fyodor Dostoyevski - love and the reality of a fabrication of beauty

Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevski - to review the awkward joke that is adolescence

The Circular Ruins - Jorge Luis Borges - a perfect labyrinth in single volume

A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quinn - Jorge Luis Borges - April March, a perfect description of memory

Demian - Hermann Hesse - getting to know the mother of life through the heightened hierarch of the archetypal journey

The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis - to fall in love with Aslan; a peaceful understanding of godliness/immortality

Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein - to leave a smile on your face

The Story of O - unknown - because I am just an old fashioned girl; (wink. wink. nudge nudge.)

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Books not to be touched unless one would like to commit intellectual suicide:

The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevski - Prince Myshkin never dies, and one does not know to cry from finishing the reading, or from impotent desire to kill

Anything written by Margaret Atwood - merely a copy of a copy of a copy, sadly stretching to infinity, one of her novels is enough, any one of them, they are quite the same

Anything other then "Demian" by Hermann Hesse - once again, the above

The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot - the living suicide of superb gorgeousness by use of obedience

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bront� -a heartache vomited onto pages

Hope you read the first list,
N.

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