On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Karen Reeds <karenmre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The title of the book under review, The Folded Clock: A Diary, by Heidi > Julavits, will appeal to origami folks. > > But the origami sighting is part of the evocative accompanying drawing by > Jeffrey Fisher. It shows a clock-face folded into the traditional > fortune-teller. > The image appears with the online version of the review, here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/books/review/the-folded-clock-by-heidi-julavits.html (Which should be publicly readable. I do not have a subscription, and I can open the page, anyway; but I cannot entirely fathom the Times' who-can-view-what rules, I seem to get notices at random that I must subscribe to read articles when I follow links to their website.) As always, it's nice to see that at least schoolyard origami like the fortune teller is sufficiently ingrained in our culture that it gets used in illustrations. But I find myself wondering what the drawing *means*... does the drawing represent a specific element of the book? Reading the review, some of the other illustrations appear to refer to specific incidents, but there's no mention of the fortune teller. Looked at one way, the drawing is of course a literal interpretation of the title - but I wonder if that's because it's an incident in the book (except you cannot actually fold a real clock, of course) or is it some other reference. Maybe it refers to the book's out-of-sequence diary structure: if you took a regular diary, and folded it up somehow, it's as if you're folding time... Sorry, random Sunday-morning-coffee musings on what "folding" means. Back to finding time for folding regular old stuff like paper, Anne
