![]() ![]() He might have added that Ecclesiastes is much shorter, more moving and less redundant as well. I think most readers would do well to heed another remark made in this book, to wit, that all this has been said before in the book of Ecclesiastes. ![]() Every time I picked up this particular book, I said to myself, time and again, "What's the point? It's just going to be more tedious description of tedium." And I was quite correct. ![]() Normally, I knock off a book of this length in a couple days. "Tedium", the most recurrent theme in these collections, by Pessoa's (or, excuse me, one of his "heteronym's") definition is the "serious disease of feeling there's nothing worth doing." Another one of these heteronyms remarks at an earlier point that ".the very idea of reading vanishes as soon as I pick up a book from the table." This, at any rate, was the effect this book had on me. ![]()
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