Story Following

Upon reading The Following Story a second time I consciously searched for connections with the class, here are some I made. Much of the book remined me of Beckett, adn how the author merely tries te tell a story, but ultimately can't, and along the way gives the reader clues to the existence of this problem. "But I can't talk to you like this: you can't be both in the story and not in it." It is utterly impossible to seperate the author from the work because so much of what wrting is, is so personal, and universal at the same time. We are merely looking for a different version of the story we have already heard, and living a life differently than we were before. The notion of not knowing where or who you are when ouy wake up still sends chills down my spine. We can never really know can we, if this is just a dream, or what we will wake up to if it is. We can only hope that when our eyes open everyday we remember where we were and how to explore it again.