![]() ![]() ![]() What I discovered is that while reading, I could actually visualize his bizarre characters and settings in my head and it was sort of like walking through a gallery of surrealist paintings. There are twenty stories in this small book, obviously very short but definitely powerful. If I had to concisely summarize these little stories, I seriously couldn't think of a better way to do it than via Magritte's words. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us." "Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. It bugged me most of the evening, until finally I was so exasperated with my memory that I had to go look it up and voilà : ![]() While I was reading this little gem of a collection, for some reason René Magritte (whose work I absolutely love) popped into my brain, but I could only remember part of a quotation of his, something to do with things being hidden and having an interest in wanting to see them. ![]() Small presses are a godsend to someone like me who seriously craves something beyond the ordinary, and I definitely got that in Mike Russell's Nothing is Strange. " We all already occupy the same space.It is just our centres that are at different points." (my copy from the publisher - thank you!) ![]()
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