The Remains of the Day (by Kazuo Ishiguro) is an absolutely brilliant bit of writing. It is a first person narration by a butler in one of the great English country houses. Stevens, the butler, is, to put it mildly, a hyperprecise narrator. Hyperprecise.You want an example? I flipped open the book at random. Stevens is on a road trip and ran out of gas. He walks up the road a short bit to a gate which opens onto a field and sees a small village about a mile away. He explains why he decided to … [Read more...] about Dignity, the Amoral Virtue
Measuring out my life with coffee spoons ...and books
