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English Slacker chapter forty-two |
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By chrismorton
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10 August 2008 |
This is the final chapter from section V So by now I’d put the fact that I hadn’t being able to get to sleep the night before down to the state of the house when I’d got in, and actually it was a while before the whole Colin incident started affecting me again. But there’s one more thing worth mentioning about this day, which is what Neale was going on about at lunch time.
That particular Sunday was pretty easy, as me and Bradby had predicted. Not that we didn’t work hard ‘cause we did. But it was just nice not to have some manager, “On our backs the whole time.” (Bradby was the one who’d said this and it was so true).
Anyway, at lunch I sat with Bradby and Neale and we were talking about the night before and for some reason I got on to the subject of how I’d woken up three times on the beach but that twice it’d been in a dream – I didn’t wanna go into either of the dreams or anything and only said that the first one had involved four robots that I’d previously seen on TV earlier that day and that the other one had involved going up to the cliffs in Alex and Paul’s van.
So what Neale said I can’t remember word for word but it was along the lines of how there was no way for certain for me to like completely be one-hundred percent definite as to which time it'd been real and which time it'd been in a dream.
I mean, when he was saying this to me and Bradby we were just like, “What?” and totally with no idea as to what he was going on about and Bradby was calling him a, “Ginger student,” and it was actually quite funny ‘cause the more we didn’t understand the more Neale kept going at it, like trying to get across his idea using different examples: Of how the past is uncertain and the only thing we can be really sure about is the present and all stuff like that.
And as I say, the more he went on the more we were laying into him about how he was, “So full of shit.” But what he said was still interesting enough to not forget about and I guess that’s why it stuck with me.
Even now as I think about his words… I dunno… a lot of what happened to me that summer I can’t be totally sure about, and… yeah there’s something about this idea that does give me a little comfort now. Just ‘cause, well just ‘cause it makes it easier for me to not worry too much about making sense of a lot of what I remember from the whole Colin incident. |
Written by bluecity (432 comments posted) 15th August 2008 | A bit of philosophy now? It is sometimes very difficult to work out which is real and what is part of a dream. I note that Chambers enjoys working through this concept in an intellectual way.
I'm worried about your ellipses in the last paragraph. You're using them to show Chambers working through ideas, but I think you could do without them.
Rosemary
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Written by chrismorton (65 comments posted) 16th August 2008 | Yes there are too many ellipses here. I'm not sure if replacing them with commas has the same affect though.
I've been feeling recently that if I ever was going to do anything with this book then I would need an editor. The above is a good example of how I've hit a wall with regards to which parts need to be changed. If I take them out I lose something, if I leave them in it looks amateurish
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