BACK TO THE BOOKS
By Evelyn Waugh (AI generated)
The way you open the pizza or book literally takes its shape within the first few hairs of your hand over the cauldron of your finger, inside the cracks of the crissoference which is the one bucket of the book.
A hand to yourself, which is the book’s mouth, becomes then the mask.
The narrative of the book is ultimately closed, in that you have accepted your position as the reader, as the actor, as author of your own story.
It is once again your burden to lock yourself in the head of the story, which is yours only.
The book’s laughter is your wish, because you do not wish to avail yourself of the book by yourself.
Giving that book to me was not an act on my part, but I believed it to be the act in which the author played every possible act in order to enable me to feel something of myself in the text. -Evelyn Waugh
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