What is the meaning of life?
Where do I fit in the scheme of things?
What is it about 42?
How do you cook tripe?
A very strange collection of thoughts and memories by a middle aged Australian man looking for the meaning of life. And not finding it. It asks a few questions, but provides few answers. It s a wistful collection of words placed in a clever order, so as to confuse the reader. It wanders the topics of sex, politics, food and recipes.
It was written in 1998 during a period of relative crisis. So what changes? I resurrected the manuscript in 2009, by accidentally discovering that I was able to open such an old Word file.
This book covers many topics, but none in depth. It doesn’t ask too many questions, so logically from this perspective, it doesn’t answer too many questions either. It does however have some great recipes.
In between the recipes, there are passages of meandering text that are placed in a clever word order so as to create utter confusion for the reader, and includes (above all else) phrases in brackets to further test the reader’s patience. There are also footnotes (1) and no pictures.
This book was written in 1998. So what has changed? Not much, except that I use an Apple Macbook Air now to put words into a clever order.
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