Bottom's Dream Punk Music Mirror Gazing is a book

Mirror Gazing is a book about reading and looking

it wasn’t for him and he tries in earnest to move on with his feckless existence

the stories range from a man who discovers that his job performance has no significance while taking refuge in taking care of an abandoned rabbit to a man who finally expresses his love to discover that his expression frightened him more than his fear in anticipating the event

but what remains in his mind is his sympathy

including Clarice Lispector

Bottom's Dream Punk Music Mirror Gazing is a bookI have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was, says Bottom. I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it, Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidts rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or