It was torturous to get through, the sort of thing that screams for an editor. The next chapter, “Sublineations: Lovescapes,” is this awful emo exploration of a bad breakup and the following heartbreak Volls feels after. The chapter does everything one wants from the book, and if you’re at all intrigued, there’s a version in the excellent Vollmann reader Expelled from Eden, which is a good starting point for his work. Of course, Vollmann can find beauty and strangeness and ugliness all at once: This river is filled with dead birds, dead fish, probably dead humans, lots and lots of garbage, industrial runoff, and lots and lots of human shit. Vollmann (along with an improbably game ex-Marine/hotel clerk) takes a raft-a cheap rubber dinghy, really-down the infamous New River, purportedly one of the most polluted waterways in North America. More to come.Ĭhapter 3 of Imperial, “The Water of Life,” is some of the best gonzo journalism I’ve ever read. The story in the manga so far differs subtly but significantly from the film without adding spoilers (I think fans of the film will enjoy the book), the political dimension of the plot is heightened and gender roles are explored with greater concern. Nausicaä’s initial rashness is also presented with greater intensity (read: violent consequences). The film, in a sense, helps me to fill out the scope signaled in Miyazki’s inky illustrations. I can’t help but compare it to the film that followed, which is visually richer and more expansive. It sometimes feels squashed in the panels, like it needs room to breathe. The art is well crafted and distinct, but often extremely busy and even frenetic. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol 1, Hayao MiyazakiĬompleted the first volume of Miyazaki’s groundbreaking manga and started the second. Smith presents herself as earnest, passionate, but also somehow at odds (or at least outs) with the whole Chelsea Hotel scene.Ģ. The scene where she meets Allen Ginsberg is pretty cool. Anyway, Smith’s book is more or less a litany of famous meetings and infamous moments with lots and lots of descriptions of talismanic objects. Momentum and reading habits will inevitably return. Really slowed down on this one, mostly because the spring semester hath begun, wreaking all sorts of destabilizing tasks on me.
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