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ngoldie's review against another edition
5.0
One of the most stunning uses of the english language I have come across.
hollasan's review against another edition
4.0
How did I get here?
All I wanted to do was read [b:The Tunnel|156182|The Tunnel|William H. Gass|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1463948585s/156182.jpg|2339956]. But the ebook is unavailable and I did not want to spend5000 12,000 bucks on a book that I am pretty sure I won't understand.
That's how I ended up picking up this little one by Gass instead.
Hadrian's review pretty much sums it up.
Absolutely loved it. The author's thoughts are scattered and I'm sure I missed a lot of the references, but I highlighted the shit out of every page. I want to read everything written by him.
someone please gift me The Tunnel
All I wanted to do was read [b:The Tunnel|156182|The Tunnel|William H. Gass|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1463948585s/156182.jpg|2339956]. But the ebook is unavailable and I did not want to spend
That's how I ended up picking up this little one by Gass instead.
Hadrian's review pretty much sums it up.
Absolutely loved it. The author's thoughts are scattered and I'm sure I missed a lot of the references, but I highlighted the shit out of every page. I want to read everything written by him.
lookhome's review against another edition
4.0
'So a random set of meanings has softly gathered around the world the way lint collects. The mind does what. A single word, a single thought, a single thing, as Plato taught.' (7)
A whimsical stroll down the dark alleys of colour theory and thought.
This had way more references and word play than I expected and thought I read it in a single day I feel it might be best digested in smaller sittings.
It's incredibly dense in allusion and its sprawling sentences kind of suck you in and carry you in a way that, while exhilarating, might leave you looking back, asking yourself, in the immortal words of Talking Heads 'how did I get here?'.
I've since done a bit of research on the writer and now I'm very curious as to his other novels, has anyone read The Tunnel, thoughts?
'What seems to line our life with satin? what brings the rouge to both our cheeks? Loneliness, emptiness, worthlessness, grief... each is an absence in us. (11-12)
Being without Being is Blue (12)
Without plan or purpose we slide from substance to sensation, fact to feeling, all out becomes in, and we hear only exclamations of suspicious satisfaction: the uhms, the ohs, the ahs. (17)
Art, like light, needs distance, and anyone who attempts to render sexual experience directly must face the fact that writhings which comprise it are ludicrous without their subjective content (19)
I would like to suggest that a least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story or a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing. (20)
I am firmly of the opinion that people who can't speak have nothing to say (25)
We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming (25)
I saw not the forbidden image but the forbidden object of that image, the great mystery itself (38)
If any of us were as well taken care of as a the sentences of Henry James, we'd never long for another, never wander away. (44)
Crude as it is, the case allows us to separate what is meant from what is said, and what is said from what is implied, and what is implied from what is revealed' (48)
It is the color consciousness becomes when caressed (57)
Colors flood our space so fully that there isn't any (61)
perception was a process in which a felt effect, in the moment of its existence, was nevertheless always experienced as if it were occurring in the space of its cause (65)
perceptions are always profound, associations deceiving. (77)
A whimsical stroll down the dark alleys of colour theory and thought.
This had way more references and word play than I expected and thought I read it in a single day I feel it might be best digested in smaller sittings.
It's incredibly dense in allusion and its sprawling sentences kind of suck you in and carry you in a way that, while exhilarating, might leave you looking back, asking yourself, in the immortal words of Talking Heads 'how did I get here?'.
I've since done a bit of research on the writer and now I'm very curious as to his other novels, has anyone read The Tunnel, thoughts?
'What seems to line our life with satin? what brings the rouge to both our cheeks? Loneliness, emptiness, worthlessness, grief... each is an absence in us. (11-12)
Being without Being is Blue (12)
Without plan or purpose we slide from substance to sensation, fact to feeling, all out becomes in, and we hear only exclamations of suspicious satisfaction: the uhms, the ohs, the ahs. (17)
Art, like light, needs distance, and anyone who attempts to render sexual experience directly must face the fact that writhings which comprise it are ludicrous without their subjective content (19)
I would like to suggest that a least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story or a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing. (20)
I am firmly of the opinion that people who can't speak have nothing to say (25)
We have a name for the Second Coming but none for a second coming (25)
I saw not the forbidden image but the forbidden object of that image, the great mystery itself (38)
If any of us were as well taken care of as a the sentences of Henry James, we'd never long for another, never wander away. (44)
Crude as it is, the case allows us to separate what is meant from what is said, and what is said from what is implied, and what is implied from what is revealed' (48)
It is the color consciousness becomes when caressed (57)
Colors flood our space so fully that there isn't any (61)
perception was a process in which a felt effect, in the moment of its existence, was nevertheless always experienced as if it were occurring in the space of its cause (65)
perceptions are always profound, associations deceiving. (77)