Newcastle, Meet Coals

I'm in the midst of downsizing and consolidating my stuff in storage, and *of course* I found some books that I had to bring home, because *of course* my studio apartment isn't sufficiently crammed with books as it is.

Inter alia, I brought home a whole bunch of Agnon, two A&P books from my EMT course, and a couple of books on photography that I'd found particularly informative. The reason for the A&P is twofold: because I want to refresh my memory on what I learned in the course, and because I want to get back into drawing and the anatomical illustrations are often useful.

The Narrative 'Mistake'

I'm working on a third reading of Toni Morrison's 'Jazz', and I realized there was something nagging at me about the book. The story seemingly has a "mistake" in the narration, and I realized I was reminded of Agnon's story 'In the Heart of the Seas', which also seems to include an error by the narrator. In both cases (the second shot that's never fired, the tenth man who's named but not counted), the author is pointing us toward a more sublime truth.