Thursday, June 19, 2008

Someone’s in the Kitchen With Ignatius J. Reilly


There's an interesting piece by Elizabeth Kiem I found recently on The Morning News site.

The beginning of said essay:

In total defiance of the accepted notion that reading unfetters the imagination, I have been setting the domestic scenes of 30 years’ worth of novels on just a few familiar and well-trod stages.

They work together, shifting measurements and accommodating amenities to fit textual requirements (a dumbwaiter, a patio fountain, a half-door and mansard window), but they are always recognizable behind these architectural liberties. Cognitive scientists claim you can’t dream of a face you’ve never seen. Well, I can’t read a room I haven’t inhabited.

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