Medieval in LA (Harvest Book) Review

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Medieval in LA (Harvest Book) ReviewThis little book is a gem. Subtitled 'A Fiction', it isn't clear what is really fictionalized. Nothing actually happens here. The narrator, someone named Jim - like the author - leaves San Francisco - where the author lives - to visit friends in L.A. for the weekend. They see an art show, go to dinner, to a Hollywood party, sleep, have breakfast and then go to the beach. That is the sole action, but these prosaic occurances provide the pretext for the author's internal ruminations about the Age of Faith's transition into the Age of Reason. Jim sees himself as still a Medieval man (Jim Paul is described on the book jacket as a 'poet and medievalist')and his internal dialogue becomes a kalidescopic montage of events and arguments about what the modern world is and isn't, and his place in it. Berkeley, Hume, Augustine, William of Ockham, Gallileo, Bertolt Brecht, John Cage, MTV, modern cinema, the Bible, pop music, Chaos Theory, Newton, and numerous anecdotes from his personal expeience and that of his friends and those he meets, are all woven together into a minor but thoroughly satisfying meditation about human intention and life's meaning.
An entertaining notion presented in the book is the concept of the 'suckhole . . . a stupid accident that winds up altering the future you had in mind.' I will add this to the Cosmic Joker as an explanatory principle to use as needed.
On the whole, this book is a very pleasant and fun way to spend an afternoon, and provides enough grains of thought for the mind to grind on for days more.Medieval in LA (Harvest Book) Overview

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