Thursday, April 29, 2010
The Mad Hatterr!!! ( It does make you mad)
As discussed in class, the book is a difficult read. I found it a little easier when we were given a "map" of what to read for. I do however realize it is difficult to get through his writing. Desani writes in a clever way to cause critical thinking. As English majors, we are use to correcting things when we see them as wrong. For example the sentence that contained extraordinary, we wanted to change it to the adverb extraordinarily and that is not what Desani wanted. As the reader, it is hard for me to get over the fact of just reading words and not getting content but at the same time the book is teaching me to pay attention to words that I otherwise skim over and do not give much thought. The book contains many ideas even though they are all over the place but it reminds me of our daily thoughts of our minds running from one spectrum to the other. I can appreciate the fact that gives questions in the beginning for thought even though they may not all be answered. I am not saying this is my favorite book but it reinforces the idea of research. We need to research for our own understanding of what to make up of concepts or ideas that may be jumbled like this book. In order for me to read this book, I have to remind myself of the cleverness of the writing and figure out other ways it can benefit me.
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I completely agree with you. The writing is so bizarre but it seems that Hatterr experiences life the same way a lot of people experience it. He searches for this enlightenment. With this search of enlightenment, consulting the seven sages almost represents him learning different lessons of life from each sage. That's where I totally agree with you that we have to take these episodes of his experiences as him doing research, retaining what's necessary and disposing what's irrelevant to "Life". Similar to Hatterr's experience, we don't know what we've exactly been (just like he probably doesn't know exactly where he's been), but we certainly understand he's had a ride of a lifetime. I'd definitely say he invented this kind of writing because I've certainly never seen it in any other novels I've read, but we definitely have to appreciate him for being that tenacious.
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