i thought the virgin suicides was about gender issues but i didn't
read the book,only saw the film.the idea resonated but the film
didn't make a huge impact on me.style over content maybe.

<<lanark versus new lanark>>

lanark by alasdair gray : "From the moment it first appeared, Lanark
was hailed as the most remarkable novel of the second half of the
20th
century. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its
playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal
and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our
compulsion to go on trying. With its echoes of Dante, Blake, Joyce,
Kafka and Lewis Carroll, Lanark has been translated into over a dozen
languages to world-wide success."

new lanark : "New Lanark is a small 18th century village set in a
sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian
idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the
early
19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, the spacious and
well-designed workers' housing, and the dignified educational
institute and school still testify to Owen's humanism."

this is all making me homesick.just as i go 8 hours in the opposite
direction.hee haw.

voodoo dolly... u gonna find the time t