Huffington Post and Renate Stendhal
On behalf of IF SF, the small press I direct, and Thomas Fuller, author of "Monsieur Ambivalence" which IF SF published, I'm writing to say how thrilled we were to read Renate Stendhal's piece in the Huffington Post yesterday.
I know I speak for the author when I say that Mr. Fuller's "Monsieur Ambivalence" has finally been satisfyingly deciphered! Any and all prior judgements of the book--that it lacks plot, that it is a philosophy masked as a travelog, that it borrows so heavily from the past as to be improbable--have been overturned.
We are certain also that Blaise Pascal would have been pleased by Ms. Stendhal's close reading of Mr. Fuller's book, and her keen appreciation of Mr. Pascal's present relevance to our attention-challenged time.
Mr. Pascal was the last to believe that anyone could sit alone in a room by themselves for one hour, man or woman, without anxiety--that's why he wrote what he wrote. He wanted us to try it and to see what happened when we did.