Donna - white envy ? :D

http://keanusuigeneris.blogspot.com/2011/04/ode-to-happiness-discussion-by-writers.html

I am hoping that this won't stop anyone from supporting Our Man's lyrical endeavours by buying the book. From a fan viewpoint it is definitely a collector's item.

i dun wanna look like that i swoon over everything he does :D but damn.. i like that preview of the book.. i guess people who connect with those feelings of him , would appreciate it more . which im one of them .. i loved the whole concept of it , that theres no need to over-analyse these kind of feelings , coz after all u just feel them as simply as it was written.. and i was impressed by the end of that section which says ," it can always be worse" ..

thanks again :)

Not saying he couldn't have done, just difficult to see him sitting still long enough to do it :D.

yes, it's very simple. a few sheets of paper, tied together with black thread and put in a case of ash-grey canvas... the look of a home-made book :D
and yet. there's a 'catch' to all this. the details converge to create a special whole. can't find the word for it.

and yes, if one reads only the verses, they seem uber-simple. they are simple. but if you read them one by one, one on each page, each one with its 'explicative' drawing... it's something else. the ink-on paper drawings, the lettering, as if written with a quill. the hue gone blue, the only color in those gray tones. a misery room = a cube with a sad Gerty face.
Yes, I have seen the scans before. but actually holding the book in my hands, feeling its texture, perceiving its tones and hues... a totally different experience.
At least it is to me.

maybe it's my kevin lomax's mind but I don't think it's a good idea publish the entire book on line... few pages could be a kind of publicity for the book but entire not...
in any way I think who wants to get the book is not stopping because the images are avalaible on the net.

I like the idea that the only color of the book is that line blue...and "blue" has a double meaning... I like also the ending line of the book... bitter, ironic and realist. and it makes me remember this quote: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

( and thanks :) )

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