Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine
A Fiction, American, Literature book. Finally when he climbed below deck after dark, wondering where his dinner was, perhaps...
Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas... So begins the courtship of a certain Unguentine to the woman we know only as Mrs. Unguentine, the chronicler of their sad, fantastical tale. For forty years, they sail...
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- Pages: 113 pages
- ISBN: 9780945953029 / 0
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Often he vanished for days down the spiral staircase into the engine-room to overhaul the weary machinery, leaving me with a curt note tacked to his then-favourite aspen, the Aspen Laura-Anne, a white-limbed thing with noisy leaves: 'A due-south drift, please, love, for a day or two, n'est-ce pas? Stanley Crawford, Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine // Finally when he climbed below deck after dark, wondering where his dinner was, perhaps with a storm come up and rough seas and blinding rains, I'd sulk and lure him into the warm and steamy darkness and from the hairs of his warm body I'd breed a myriad smiling, sparkle-eyed one-year-olds, my broods, my flocks. In the churning seas, below the waves, together inside our hammock woven in coarse sailcloth by Unguentine's deft hands, a spherical webbed sack which hung and swivelled between the two walls of our bedroom, we would spin round and round with... So that where I once did not know who or what you were, now I wonder who I or we are, or what. What planet is this anyway, my dear? Stanley Crawford, Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine //
Meaty language and an intriguing concept/characters, but the execution was confusing as much as it was anything. As the reader, I was trying to figure out the Truths of this world, but it felt like they kept changing. I'd love to see an illustrated timeline for all the action of this story because it didn't consistently make sense in... In the afterword, Ben Marcus says, "Architectural dreamwork, end-times seascapes so barren they seem cut from the pages of the Bible, cooly-rendered Rube Goldberg apparati, and the crushing sadness that results when you tie your emotional fortunes to a person whose tongue is so fat in his mouth he can barely speak, mark this little... A drunken Mr. Unguentine falls from the railing of the barge, thus ending a forty year marriage that began with a night of love on a catamaran and was consecrated via Transatlantic cable. He and Mrs. Unguentine, who narrates the story, have lived on their married life on the barge, sailing the seas to avoid extreme seasons, and after...
