Lemme start by saying, I have not read the whole transchromagression, neither will you, but it is undoubtedly up there with Cooking with Emeril as the best transchromagression of all time. I was through part 5 when I realized that it hadn't been written yet - a terrible quality of any book, yet one of the best at the same time. The best ideas in life haven't been thought of yet, and Lee succeeds in having ideas that will never ever be thought of. But they are. Further proving the brillance of Lee. However, I have to take him to task with a few things. He works in perfect chronological order. Hasn't he ever seen momento? The best things in life are fucked up. I'm getting tired of reading in the future-past perfect tense, such as in pg 8932 where he states,
""I walked into the room, and locked myself in the outside only after I realized there wasn't a door, yet, but in the future there wouldn't have been. I called, 'Hrrrahggtagghttaggh' in perfect Basque. Or proto-basque, I can never remembered, at least I don't thought that I'm a butterfly""
The mistake was made from the beginning, of the end. Why would Lee choose to write "the" when it is more representative of Western Culture if he said "badgerhat". I can't think. Especially not while reading. My one piece of advice is to not try and piece it together. It will do this on it's own. You need to instead, bask in the greatness of what it is. It will be exactly what it is, not trying to follow anything else. How else could a autobiagraphy about what you are going to write about as told through frame narration and erotic poetry about 3rd period aiding operate? It can't. Lee's literature may not be great, but it is groundbreaking. It might not pick up the tab, but it will call you again and not pressure you into doggy style before you're ready. Flowers are necessary though, and don't believe him when he says the credit card demagnetized, HE'S LYING! When the rubber hits the road, Lee hits the sky, and after 1998, that's all we can hope for.
The three new tenses he introduces? Innovation in it's vital parts. If you could take apart greatness, Lee would have thrown his parts into a tornado inside of a shark tank. And pissed out gold.
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