pickI first encountered "The Floating Opera" many years ago while I was in high school. I was briefly obsessed with it then. Rereading now, my feelings are more conflicted but it still makes me laugh and think and wish I could craft one sentence as clever as Barth's dullest. "The End of the Road" is new to me: it covers similar territory with fewer jokes.
To someone like myself, whose literary activities have been confined since 1920 mainly to legal briefs and Inquiry-writing, the hardest thing about the task at hand--viz., the explanation of a day in 1937 when I changed my mind--is getting into it.
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Discovered in my Little Free Library this morning.
"To someone like myself, whose literary activities have been confined since 1920 mainly to legal briefs and Inquiry-writing, the hardest thing about the task at hand- viz., the explanation of a day in 1937 when I changed my mind- is getting into it."
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The Floating Opera and The End of the Road | 
