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A review by h2oetry
This Is Not a Novel by David Markson
5.0
This non-novel by this not non-writer is the second in Writer's series of four books(see: tetralogy).
Was the book also the last at one point?
Or was it always second, before the birth of the third?
The fourth is the final.
As was the first. The second. The third.
What was intended as the final?
All -- or at least some -- things are cut short.
The anecdotes die off quickly, with no failure of heart.
Some, it would seem, resurrect.
Or is it repeated?
Writer blends and blurs, but beginnings rarely surface.
But an ending is here.
Is there.
Is there?
It's there.
It's there?
Was the book also the last at one point?
Or was it always second, before the birth of the third?
The fourth is the final.
As was the first. The second. The third.
What was intended as the final?
All -- or at least some -- things are cut short.
The anecdotes die off quickly, with no failure of heart.
Some, it would seem, resurrect.
Or is it repeated?
Writer blends and blurs, but beginnings rarely surface.
But an ending is here.
Is there.
Is there?
It's there.
It's there?