The 3rd chapter

The 3rd chapter of this book once again takes on the form of a narrative, and it's amusing as well as the Chronologies. It reveals a little more about the personality of the author, and the character he represents, Geoffrey. It also introduces his strange eccentric moralistic friend, Ed, who has burnt the letters Flaubert has written to his mistress. It's hard to take each of these chapters as a single thing, as this book takes on a real postmodernism form and never follows the "conventions" as they're normally thought of it. It really is just a pasting of random articles and bits of stories that the author has just stuck in seemingly random places. There really is no general consensus from each chapter, and it seems more that each chapter must be taken as a bit in itself. The story really does seem to be playing with us, as it reveals tantalizing facts and tidbits and then immediately jumps to a new subject, such as what animal best represents Flaubert. It's really interesting to read, and even if the book was not that amazing, the simple fact that it teases you and drags you along, forcing you to either, continue reading in order and hope for the next chapter to come up soon, or to simply skip around until you find the next section based on the same idea. If there are not any more sections about the certain topic, than you will be dragged on by some other interesting tidbit. Postmodernism really has the ability to just throw things in wherever whenever and call it writing. And the fact is, the tease and laughs it brings keep you addicted and reading.