Fragments of Lichtenberg Romance the burdens of illness and

the burdens of illness and grief

the narrator and his siblings are led across the US as she searches for the "right" religious sect—a trip that ends with her speaking in tongues

sometimes terrifying moment when living memory becomes history and the living become the dead

with beknitted finger drew the slivered <K> in the silver scurf beside me

[T]his novel's whirling blocks of prose suggest faces glimpsed from behind a podium

Fragments of Lichtenberg Romance the burdens of illness andThe eighteenth century German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg left behind at the time of his death thousands of fragmentary notes commenting on a dazzling and at the same time puzzling array of subjects. Pierre Senges's Fragments of Lichtenberg imaginatively and hilariously reconstructs the efforts of scholars across three centuries to piece together Lichtenberg's disparate notes into a coherent philosophical or artistic statement. The