metal_0045.1 :: strawberry sundA.I. (fun size)
A colleague of K’s loved the large, original strawberry sundA.I. so I made this little fun-sized version (about 1/4 the size, if that) for her. Much less detailed, but I still had to throw in the Audrey Horne homage.
SHADOW TICKET (i)
Opened with excitement - NEW PYNCHON! - slogged through the first hundred pages feeling as though I was reading someone trying to write like Pynchon without any of the joyous perplexity and thrill of being lost in his worlds. Considered putting it down, thinking that maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind, visions of Cormac McCarthy's last being a slog and hoping this wouldn't be Pynchon's last fictional offering though time is a cruel mistress but, by triple digit page numbers, the story started moving, the characters started clicking and it felt like Pynchon. Lesser Pynchon, certainly, but his brain was there. And so was mine. Hoping it holds for the rest of it (another hundred pages or so). Not recommended for anyone wanting to give Pynchon a first go: guaranteed you won't get the appeal. I've read everything he's written and I barely made it to solid footing here.
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Back to using the reMarkable Paper Pro. Mostly weary of using pens and notebooks and pencils and having a stack of my life, especially since there's no one who would be interested in those books after I kick it - hell, I'm not even that interested in them once I finish exfoliating my brain across their pages. Far simpler and space-saving to use the rM (also nice to not have think about which writing implement to use – though I do wish Lamy made their Safari for the Paper Pro as they did the rM2), especially since I added a screen protector to its delicate face to give myself (at least) the illusion of Shed / projectile protection. Somewhat curious about the mini-Paper or whatever they're calling it, but I came back to the rM partly due to using legal pads to write again and prefer the brainspace the bigger format affords – nevermind that I'm not confident that reMarkable amped up the ruggedness of the Paper Pro in its mini iteration.
