The List is Endless

The opening essay by Michael Chabon is interesting in that it will lead me to read Raymond Chandler's "The King in Yellow" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's " Crazy Sunday" and Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller" and Lewis Hyde's Trickster Makes this World. Furthermore, it reminds me of that crazy essay on what a novel is and is not that I had to read in my Modern Literature class, quite possibly the hardest class I have ever taken. My copy has been shredded by multiple readings and highlightings and is stored safely at school in case I lose it in a fire. Sadly, it's an excerpt from some book whose title has disappeared from my world. Much like Wurzburg has. This may be obvious, but I don't think I will ever read "every book I own" because I am easily distracted by more. And that may actually be the whole point of this exercise.