030 300608 - Thumper

I'm not sure about the copyright issues with this photograph. It's only intended as a spatial representation of a quote that really hit me in this book, so hopefully it's ok.

Morning shrinks space, but leaves no messages

At this point in the book (that I now appear to be obsessed with), Johnny is ruining himself with obsession over a girl. This girl has given him her pager number, told him to call but then never returned his message. I can't decide whether "morning" is supposed to symbolise the passage of time until he sees this girl again, decreasing the chance that she's ever going to call, a reference to his worsening agoraphobia or something totally different, but I've taken the former; most probably because that's an angle I can relate to and I expect anyone can given the appropriate level of abstraction.

The book is full of quotes like this, and so much more incredible observation and invention. It's really quite unnerving and impulsive at the same time. I've literally had to drag myself away from it this evening. The pace can be a bit annoying, and the admission that the footnotes are fictitious renders them relatively pointless, but still readable in case something important lies therein.

I think this is the sort of book that Jordan would read, and Charlotte should not read - the fear of spiders is enough without adding darkness to that list too!

ps. There's some utterly inspiring imagery in here for budding photographers, too. I don't really feel I've done that proud today, though.