Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Monz vs. Monz!
The literary editor (LE) was in a quandry. His reading group had picked Yann Martel's "Life of Pi." Years ago the LE discussed this book with Monz, at least in the abstract. It passed what the LE called "the blurb test" (overwhelming legions of positive, pithy endorsements from newspapers, periodicals and the high literati). "Eh!" said the Monz, who has no use for pretentious...crap. This past weekend the LE dug in, and was entirely nonplussed by the hero and his supposedly-heroic boyhood religious quest which results in him practising Hinduism, Christianity and Islam and looking down his nose at anyone not sufficiently ecumen-mystic (save a soft spot for athiests). He was even more turned off by [WARNING: SPOILER!!!] the stories of this hero as castaway on a boat, forced to eat various raw fish, [WARNING: YUCK ALERT!!!] drink turtle blood and [WARNING: BLOTNICK (I.E., TRIPLE YUCK) ALERT!!!] eat tiger feces. With about 90 pages left, the LE was ready to give up on the book and just go to the meeting for the food. But then he remembered a classic Monz teaching: "Give the flick a chance!" Surely this must extend to books. The LE reads on.
Monz lunches on, with an esoticly meaty affair: roasted pork and smoked butt sandwich on wholegrain with mustard. Orange and string cheese round it out.
The literary editor (LE) was in a quandry. His reading group had picked Yann Martel's "Life of Pi." Years ago the LE discussed this book with Monz, at least in the abstract. It passed what the LE called "the blurb test" (overwhelming legions of positive, pithy endorsements from newspapers, periodicals and the high literati). "Eh!" said the Monz, who has no use for pretentious...crap. This past weekend the LE dug in, and was entirely nonplussed by the hero and his supposedly-heroic boyhood religious quest which results in him practising Hinduism, Christianity and Islam and looking down his nose at anyone not sufficiently ecumen-mystic (save a soft spot for athiests). He was even more turned off by [WARNING: SPOILER!!!] the stories of this hero as castaway on a boat, forced to eat various raw fish, [WARNING: YUCK ALERT!!!] drink turtle blood and [WARNING: BLOTNICK (I.E., TRIPLE YUCK) ALERT!!!] eat tiger feces. With about 90 pages left, the LE was ready to give up on the book and just go to the meeting for the food. But then he remembered a classic Monz teaching: "Give the flick a chance!" Surely this must extend to books. The LE reads on.
Monz lunches on, with an esoticly meaty affair: roasted pork and smoked butt sandwich on wholegrain with mustard. Orange and string cheese round it out.
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glad i didn't read that book! thanks!!! NO yummy lunches to speak of in that book!!! turtle blood?? poor turtle!
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