Welcome fellow Meanderers to our first pause that refreshes. Be careful, though, taking a dip in the river, nosing around the tussock, stepping over the plentiful ordure…. <\/p>\n
So many great comments this week! From Noodles’ #metameandermoment, to Furiosa’s call out to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,<\/em> to Susan C sketching out the line that connects this Meander, to the last, to the last.<\/p>\n Like many Meandermates, I found the book challenging early on, but we’re off and walking now, with Padma alongside to keep our narrator in check when he gets too caught up in the dot dot dot, whatsitsname, bounce about.<\/p>\n My phone’s been a handy companion, helping me look up words or pieces of history I didn’t know. And this list of characters<\/a> has become a favorite bookmark.<\/p>\n So much to enjoy on the stroll-along. One of a gazillion beats I extra dug: “Naseem Aziz who he had made the mistake of loving in fragments.” Loving in fragments. What a phrase. There lots of poetry in this prose. History too. And yes, dung reveries. More than enough reason to pick ourselves back up and launch toward the next sign post.<\/p>\n Where to?<\/strong> How about we meet at the end of “Many-headed Monsters” (pg. 100 in the Random House paperback) where the countdown appears to be underway. No rush, my friends, but seriously, “tick tock.”<\/p>\n