Ruben Elzerman

I started reading AHWOSG today. An 2 hours later I finished 1) the cover 2) the general information page with data such as copyright, publisher (absolute huge german company) and of course the gayness of the writer on a scale from 1 to 10 (=3, with 1 being completely straight) 3)The preface 4) Acknowlegdments, including a nice drawing of stapler. 

I think I wil like this book. This could be a ‘Pulp Fiction’. Something you like so much that you wish you hadn’t seen (or read) it, just to be able to see it for the first time again. Maybe I set the bar too high now. I haven’t even started to read the actual story. But I’m inspired by his way of meta writing. Filling pages with thoughts about thoughts about thoughts…. I think I will stop doing the Herman Brusselmans approach and start writing emails and blogs the Eggers way.

You really need to pay attention with this book or you’ll miss all the good stuff. So I also started looking up words in the dictionary for a change.

Like:

Dovetails, Flagellation, Solipsism, Flouting

I wonder where the word flagellation came from.