by Donald Barthelme
There is really no few quotes or list of facts to sum up this book. It’s all over the place, delightfully and frustratingly.
Here’s a link.
I’ll share one quote, though there are better others.
“[he] fell away into the bottomless abyss of the formerly known.” — “110 West Sixty-first Street”
I particularly liked “Chablis,” “Bluebeard,” “The Palace at Four A.M.,” and “Sentence.”
I particularly did not like “At the Tolstoy Museum,” “The Wound,” and “Conversations with Goethe” (even though the title was so promising).