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The
Arboretum Towards the Beginning, Nathan Thompson (80pp, £8.95,
Shearsman)
(£0.03 for a copy on Amazon with: large wrinkle or
bend on back; large wrinkle or bend on front; and large wrinkle or bend on
pages)
Sometimes when I'm asleep people ask me what I think about this book and I
always say the same thing. And
when I've said it I turn over and hope there's a better dream on the other
side because that one makes me feel a bit queasily narcissistic and
self-obsessed. But then I comfort myself while I'm lying awake by remembering
that's what dreams are all about unless you're a prophet, which I'm not. And
unless you're one of those slightly annoyingly crazy
meddling-but-don't-seem-to-realise-it types who try to interact with other
people in your/their dreams in an online gaming(1)sort of way and then want to bug them in
real life too, like the characters in Russell Hoban's Amaryllis Night and
Day.
Which I guess could be part of the idea here maybe, and is perhaps not that
unusual. I know this isn't really a review but it was never going to be was
it?
© Nathan Thompson
2009
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