Literature Unnatured

Literature Unnatured by Joy Williams, stuck me as a thought provoking piece of literature that I never would have picked up off of a local bookstore shelf, but something that after reading, I wish I would have felt compelled to do so. The relationship between nature and words seemed both metaphoric and yet not. I felt like the interpretation by the end was left to the reader, and that that was the point. That there isn't one solution to just anything, that each and every person pulls something diferent from experiences.

It made me think about how "manufactured" in a sense the entire world is. I can't think of a day that I don't use a computer, or my phone, or even my identification card. It made me think of George Orwell's 1987 in the manner of the Big Brother factor. It made me want to strike out, technology-less and try and beat the grid. I had read articles before of peopel going off the grid in order to prove that people can live, and he difficulties wrapped up in a situation like that made me realize that I take advantage of what I have around me. That I am a student at a University with limitless access to book after book, my passion after all, where I could be more absorbed in what I was learning and passing on to others. It made me wonder if the standards I hold for myself academicaly are lower than I know I can achieve- and at the same time what US standards are compared to other country's standards.

The manner in which our words are being "manufactured" reminds me of the mechanic like lives we could end up living, and that I hope we never do live.