#414 The Princess and the Plumber- Sheila Heti
This was another week of all new collections. This one is
the odd and quirky book, The Middle Stories of Sheila Heti. It’s an odd, but
fun mix of fairy-tale and dream where modern life seeps into a Disney film.
The plumber is in love with the princess, and must have her.
She doesn’t love him and rebuffs his proposals.
“That evening he went home and, using a hammer and some
wood, built the most marvelous marriage contraption the world has ever seen. It
takes a special kind of man to invent something new, something never before
thought of, and that night, inspired by her rejection, he did just that.”
We never find out exactly what the contraption is, nor does
the princess. She refuses to see him and the castle is under quarantine with a
disease. He is to blame, a meddlesome frog tells him, but we don’t know why. We
do know that world is changing and people will soon live to be two hundred
years old, and with nothing but leisure tike, because everyone will love in the
new welfare state. But the plumber cries filling the world with his sadness
like snow covers the hills.
Rating: 7-8-8-7 Total= 30
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