Mags, Gombrowicz

I've read so many magazines since my last post! An issue of GQ, two issues of The New Scientist, two issues of Eclectic Reading, an issue of Hello Canada, an issue of OK Magazine, an issue of The Economist, and an issue of The New Yorker.

I've also read four books by Witold Gombrowicz: the inevitable memoir, Polish Memories; a bunch of notes for a course in Philosophy in 6 hours and 15 minutes, undertaken at teh request of friends to prevent the author from committing suicide; a collection of short stories called Bacacay, one of which puts me in mind of A Modest Proposal; and a novel about voyeurism called Pornografia. Well, that was an interesting array of readings. Gombrowicz is unconventional in his use of material -- cannibalism in the aristocracy? But none of it is as novel to me as his admirers say.