Last week was somewhat heady for me. As I mentioned a few days ago, I saw Inception at a midnight screening. I also watched Waking Life for the first time a few days before that. I also had a metaphysical encounter of a different sort that week, one of the most interesting reading experiences I have had in a while in Cloud Atlas, a novel by David Mitchell*. I was intrigued by the description of the novel’s structure included (without proper spoiler warnings!) in a New York Times Magazine profile of the author.
[Spoilers below. It’s not the end of the world to be spoiled on the structure of the novel, but I’m certain that it will change the reading experience.]
hammer & jack 