Septology

in a word

And I’m sitting in front of my computer, yes, my good old computer, upstairs facing the window, and sometimes when it rains I have to close the window because if the water gets on my computer then maybe it’ll kill it, and then what would I do, because, I think I don’t know anyone who mends computers here, so I sit here, and to my left I’ve got a small fan blowing on the computer to keep it cool, because here it can get quite hot here, like today, and who knows, so as I type I think about the book which Jon Fosse wrote and I think I understand how and why he wrote this book, which is a big book, longer than most books I can finish really, and why he wrote it in one long sentence and mainly just in short words, words which anyone can read anyway, and how he made it, I think, one of the best, yes, even greatest books I’ve ever read, and I think that now I’ve got to the end, and it is an end, I must try to explain or show, yes show, why he did it this way, because all the time he writes about the big things, the things that don’t sit in the front of my mind most of the time but which, I think, I think about a bit and so do you most likely, and sure enough when it comes to the big things maybe we don’t really know what we think, and I think Jon Fosse wants to talk about, to write about things like God, faith, love, art and death and age and being alone and even falling apart maybe we don’t get anywhere, or at least I never do, when I write in sentences because after all when you put a full stop to a sentence it’s a kind of end, and it tells you, it is telling you, what you think or should think, or could think, or could at least argue with, and if Jon Fosse thinks you can’t think about things like God, faith, love, art and death and age in that way because they are too big and we are too small, and it’s not like a logic class so why do we think sentences with a full stop can do the work he needs to do, then maybe he sat at a computer just like this my good old computer with the fan blowing to keep it cool, because it gets hot here, and said to himself, yes, let it all hang out the faith and lack of faith, God and his absence and the nonsense we make of it all, the invisible darkness in the art which is where God hides or doesn’t, so that in the end, and there is an end, we’ll feel we’ve been through something important, and even though the book is seven hundred pages or so and just one long sentence, it’s a bigger book than I usually like, you want it to keep going to tell the story or many stories which it takes to tell the story, and why it makes you think, I think, that he’s found a way to do things, and important things really, I think, with a new approach to language which is neither as messy or easy or silly as it may sound to you