September 22, 2011

Oh, this Wei Wu Wei, such a character.  It figures he's French.  He reminds me of a philosopher version of the French writer, Robbe-Grille.  R.G. had his day in the 60's I think, back in the Grove Press days when a lot of weird stuff came out as experimental fiction.  R-G was known for what I would call flatline writing: creating scenes with the unwinking and nonjudgmental eye of a camera.  No comment minimalism or objectivism, dry as church as I recall.  But he was terrific at whatever the hell he was doing.  Same goes in spades for WWW.  The man is uncompromising in telling the truth even if it sounds insane.