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radahldo's review against another edition
4.0
"If seeking old places
and memories
It is like stepping
in one’s own
tracks in the snow—
one breaks them up and
destroys them—
—One will also stand guard
over memories"
At it's strongest moments it uses the constraint of this style to say something very penetrating in this fragmented manner. At it's worse (which is essentially the middle half out the book) he is goes into tedious detail about things, essentially fighting against his own style rather than just writing in prose.
During this portion it's quite literally just a journal and isn't interesting.
The last half picks back up where he starts writing about his feelings on art.
and memories
It is like stepping
in one’s own
tracks in the snow—
one breaks them up and
destroys them—
—One will also stand guard
over memories"
At it's strongest moments it uses the constraint of this style to say something very penetrating in this fragmented manner. At it's worse (which is essentially the middle half out the book) he is goes into tedious detail about things, essentially fighting against his own style rather than just writing in prose.
During this portion it's quite literally just a journal and isn't interesting.
The last half picks back up where he starts writing about his feelings on art.
bluermi's review against another edition
1.0
Shoud've stayed private. Or maybe it was a bad translation.
1 star for this one:
16
I am like
the sleepwalker who
walks on the ridge
of a roof—
sure-footed and calm
he walks without seeing
without hearing—
Oh someone shouts at
him—louder and
louder—he wakes up
and he falls off
of the roof—down
from his dreams—
Don’t do that
to me—that
—I walk
calmly in my dreams
which are my life—
—only like that
can I live
1 star for this one:
16
I am like
the sleepwalker who
walks on the ridge
of a roof—
sure-footed and calm
he walks without seeing
without hearing—
Oh someone shouts at
him—louder and
louder—he wakes up
and he falls off
of the roof—down
from his dreams—
Don’t do that
to me—that
—I walk
calmly in my dreams
which are my life—
—only like that
can I live
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