![]() ![]() A good painting or photograph illustrates some subject, flowers or whatever, but the background - negative space - is incidental, or meant to disappear, hopefully in harmony and balance and not disjointed from the main subject. In art it would be called negative and positive space. HE IS MY FAVORITE AUTHOR AND NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY! He makes me snort and laugh and giggle and have wry smiles and nod appreciatively and gasp in amazement when something so minor, so thrown away chapters ago becomes significant and masterfully portrays the cleverness of a particular character, or their steely determination, or their ability to read between the lines themselves. He captures more than the words he captures the meaning behind the words that is often different from what the words as written are actually on the page. ![]() Now that I LISTENED to the book on CD read by a masterful narrator. I have tried to put my finger on this for years without success. ![]() Last year I had learned that the Brits made a video of it and was able to get from the library and it was respectable job, but to my recollection, did not capture what Pratchett’s writing manages like no other I have read: half the content of the book is not WHAT HE WRITES but what he DOESN’T WRITE. ![]() But Going Postal is my favorite among all the books I have ever read. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett Īlas, I do not remember which of his books I read first. ![]()
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