#and perhaps i'm easier to fool about this bc i write in my diary in a similar manner where it feels like it has narrative structure
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also i love unreliable narrators a normal amount
#been reading 'the basic eight' which is the debut novel of the guy who wrote asoue and is smth i've been wanting to read#for a while now for 1. being an epistolary novel 2. a satire 3. set in high school and 4. having an unreliable narrator#and it's sooooo fun trying to figure out where the cracks in flannery's story are and what she's trying to make look like the truth#and also the parallels btwn certain characters' relationships is fucking riveting#the book was published in 1999 so the story takes place in the 90s so every so often i'm taken out of the narrative by that#at least twice-- once when they didn't mention 9/11 when having a dinner party on sept 11th (and then i was like 'OHHHHHH. RIGHT.')#(lol consequence of being born in 2001)#and another time when flannery mentioned being able to figure out the time by looking in an almanac for that day's dawn time#and for a moment i was like 'huh? but you could just google--RIGHT.' and never have i ever been more acutely aware#of my own blind spots and assumptions and the tech i take for granted bc i grew up with it and it's kinda awesome actually#and you can get the sense that the writing is dense w/meaning in the same way asoue was also dense with meaning#packed with classical references and lines that seem throwaway and then come back again later like AAAA#i love the way flannery's obvious unreliability makes you actively think abt everything presented in the novel as you're reading it#i love how you can never quite tell what's being presented as unedited journal and what's being rewritten in the future#and perhaps i'm easier to fool about this bc i write in my diary in a similar manner where it feels like it has narrative structure#but i also try to be completely honest about who said what and when and so when flan the narrator does deliberately remind us#that she's editing this in post and ofc that couldn't have happened in the moment i'm like 'oh! right!'#anyway yeah just love it bc it feels like an extremely engaging read; it's like a pumpkin full of meat for my enrichment#花話
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