Stein

Geographical history

Stein writes complex language which most of the time rides over my understanding.  She has a way of asking questions without question marks.  Makes your wonder if language itself is a question.  Like chapter 2 of page 370.  The entire part is constant questions without punctuation.  But some answer the question within the same statement.  like "what is the use of being a boy if you are growing up to be a man."  It is interesting to think we do this in spoken language but not in written.

The chapters are confusing as well.  It's like the chapters are placed at random throughout the piece.  It feels like the chapters are connected to one another but in a total chaotic order.  It kind of makes the chapters in a paratactic order.  Can we read it if we organize in a different more linear way would the work be easier to understand?

This is a quote that stands out to me, "what is the difference between remembering what has been happening and remembering what has been as dreaming.  None.  therefore there is no relation between human nature and the human mind."  It is saying that in our mind our memory and dreams blend into one past thought?  It also answers by saying there isn't a difference in human mind and our human nature.  It makes me wonder why she ask questions if places the answer even though it still makes no sense to me.  It could be saying that our mind stores dreams and memories in the same bank and we bring them up when it is needed.