Angry Penguins Update

I finishedthis book, really I did.

But I can't swear, 100 per cent, that I kept on liking it.

Because it made me feel

just a little

actually quite a bit

um

thick.

I mean there were lots of lovely absurd bits about the clash of popular and "serious" culture and well observed moments of domestic life and I realise it's NOT MEANT to be taken too LITERALLY especially when people zip babies into motorcylcle jackets and ride off with two pillion passengers. I mean as IF a proper bike jacket would have room for a child inside!

And I did understand a lot of the absurdity of the situation of trying to find the meaning to everything through structural analysis.

But I finished the actual plot part last Friday on my way home from work and didn't get a chance to open it again until waiting for the bus on Monday where I found a 30 page appendix explaining the search for meaning by classifying the 175 most common words in five texts of Helen Garner in different dimensions complete with diagrams and refernces to Halliday, Saussure and Jung.

And I'm afraid even though it was an EXTREMELY long journey with quite bad traffic, I didn't quite get the finer points of some of the arguments.

But it was quite nicely done.