Obi Wan and All About H. Hatterr

I like this book. A lot. I don't get all of it, but most of what i do get is hilarious.

this book makes fun of everything. shakespeare? he lived way long ago. and maybe he wasnt shakespeare, but bacon. the wasteland? the man is talking to a dog, whom he identifies as himself. The most important book of the last 100 years (Joyce) starts out with "once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moo cow..."

The scary thing about H. Hatterr is for all its ridiculousness, it adheres to the old Obi-Wan mantra: "What I told you was true, from a certian point of view"

Now a lot of Hatterr is so utterly ridiculous as to be incomprehensible, but for me it serves as a kind of outlet for all those irreverent thoughts we have about the literature we read in English classes. Hatterr says all the things you want to blurt out in English class, but just cant. He takes Freud's theories and seeks to implement them in the most carnal and unacademic way possible. Joyce takes words seriously. Language is a weighty matter. Desani looks for the absurdaties in words. Why is the word for a useless organ in your body the same an additional section in a book (appendix)? Desani seems to be poking fun at these notions by creating a world where words are taken to the extreme and define reality. This book is a lot of fun once you start laughing with desani... if you arent, he is probably laughing at you!