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This page
is about three authors
The easiest of the three to describe
is the only male author:
Samuel Dashiell Hammett
wrote
The Maltese Falcon
and
The Thin Man
Many people with
intelligence infinitely superior
to mine would describe him
thusly:
DASHIELL HAMMETT
IS
THE GODFATHER
OF
CRIME FICTION
And crime has only
been with us
since humans
learned how to
breathe
---
Recently I responded to
a book I purchased
with at least ten words of
pure profanity and anger
because it was more than
500 pages
and I bought it
only because
it was recommended
by the third author
to be featured on this page
The Poisonwood Bible
is a novel by
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
and its very short chapters
are narrated by five different people:
the wife + four daughters
of a fire and brimstone preacher
who is hell-bent on
converting every resident
of the Belgian Congo
to Christianity
To describe
The Poisonwood Bible
as a masterpiece
of fiction
makes me nervous
because
—with biblical justification—
I could be reduced to salt
for being guilty of
understatement
The third author is
MARGARET ATWOOD
and the most accurate thing
I can say about her is
---
If there is one and only one
woman
to justify my girlfriend's jealousy
about my interactions with
her gender
---
That woman
would be
Margaret Atwood
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Hag Seed
is a re-telling of
William Shakespeare's
The Tempest
set in a Canadian
correctional facility
As for its "Masterpiece-osity"
please see my nervous comment
about salt
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Now
the readers of this page
(who have yet to abandon it)
may ask
"What the hell is Oliverio
going to talk about
the gratitude thingy?"
Here is where I do so
because both
KINGSOLVER + ATWOOD
were read after
May 18, 2024
and in that
three week period
I learned more
about the Bible
+
William Shakespeare
than I had learned
in the seventy-five years
prior to that time
As an allegedly
good Catholic boy
all I really knew
about the bible
is that
MATTHEW, MARK,
LUKE and JOHN
is the name of
the first advertising agency
Therefore
from the highest mountains
my imagination can climb
---
with as many decibels
as a supersonic jet
---
hear me holler
to this triumvirate:
THANK YOU
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This page contains no hyperlinks because if that were not the case
ReplyDeleteAT LEAST ten hyperlinks would appear here.
Therefore Oliverio hopes the reader
has his/her Goggle gun fully loaded
My Uncle Tanoose, who lectures at UC Santa Barbra
Delete(and reads your blog on a daily basis) was shocked
to find that you did not copyright this page.
There is no copyrighting here because I did not say anything
Deletethat hasn't been said before...and probably because
Dash Hammett is honored on this page,
Thievery would notbe inappropriate
-Oliverio