4/08/13

I think the structure of the stories tell me as the reader that I can't just read one story and skip over a few then read a next one. I realized that I had to continue reading to end of each story in order for the next story to make even a little sense. The structure is a bit different from the usual structures that I'm used to so it wasn't the easiest thing for me to read. There were some things that I didn't get and I felt I had to google them to make more meanings of it. Where the Mobius strip was concerned, I think it both complicated and clarified the meaning of the series. It clarified it by showing me that the stories weren't going to be the  easiest to read. I found that the stories wouldn't be the typical straight forward stories I'm accustomed to. The way in which I saw it complicating the series is that it left me with questions I had to search the answers to. As I read it I immediately remembered the first thing I learnt in Sociology, "everything is not as it seems". I realized that I had to apply a deeper thought when reading the rest of the book. I believe Barth used such a strange object to serve as the narrative structure because he thought readers were accustomed to having a particular frame of mind when reading novels. This was his way of showing that there are different ways to approaching books where reading is concerned. He wanted to be different in his own way and creative at the same time.