Runester

The harsh truth is not much happened today. Work was work. When I got home, Lisa & I grilled the marinated chicken breasts she had bought, and we had those with some salad. We watched the end ofNinth Gate and then she went to use her computer and I finished reading The Cannibal Within. Then I was off to bed early.

The Cannibal Within, is a strange little book. The subject is bizarre and extremely ‘adult’ (i.e. rape, cannibalism, murder, satanism, etc.) but nothing that I haven’t seen somewhere on the Internet before. The strangest part of the book is trying to figure out what the point of it is. The author is a tenured history professor and presents the case in the book as fact. It certainly doesn’t read like fact. On the other hand, it’s full of too many striking metaphors and mythological inversions to just be sick wank material. I get the niggling doubt in my head that he’s trying to comment on America and on human history but that I’m not clever or well read enough to understand.

In any case, now I’m on to the next book … or I can finish one of the two I’ve already started but got bogged down in.