7/8/2023 0 Comments Brief interviews with hideousIt’s not always 1, since sometimes unnumbered title pages and such are implicitly counted so that the first explicitly number page is 7 or 11 or whatever, but it’s always an odd number, and then of course it follows that from that point on all the left hand pages will be numbered with an even number (if they are numbered at all) and all the right hand pages with an odd number. There is a convention that page numbers always start with an odd number on the right. Given the title, is the implication that people today-at least in the more advanced, “postindustrial” countries-are more strategic and inauthentic in their interactions than in the past?Īctually another way the book is unconventional in form is the page numbering. It’s two short paragraphs long, and identifies pragmatic reasons people do and say what they do. The book starts off unconventional in form with its first “story,” A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life, which I would say is more of an epigraph than anything. I’ll refer to them as “stories” or “chapters” or whatever below, with the understanding that no term really fully fits. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men I suppose can be considered a collection of short stories, but most of its contents are weird David Foster Wallace postmodern things that aren’t really “stories.” Short “writings” perhaps?
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