Literary Pretension Of The Day

      "My book is a revolution in the history of literature. It is the first book of its kind. It's daring, modern and is to literature what the great Dada and Surrealist movements were to art," says "Michel Thaler," the author of Le Train de Nulle Part, claiming he's written the first novel-- get this-- without verbs. He further claims:

I am like a car driver who has smashed the windscreen so he cannot see into the future, smashed the rear-view mirror so he cannot see the past, and is travelling in the present.

Yeah, whatever you say.... "My book is a revolution in the history of literature." Gee, ladies, doesn't this sound a lot like the self-important braggart that claims that once you try a bit of his you'll never go back? Yeah, and this guy's claim means just about the same, methinks. Or perhaps he's revolutionary in the same way as the guy that managed to stick not one or two but sixty-seven golf balls into his rectum: enough to get you him into some record book somewhere, but one really has to wonder about the point of it all, not to mention imagining the discomfort involved.