Roussel Response

I like his method of mapping out words into a sort of word tree; finding things that are associated with a certain word and exploring them til they're exhausted. Even while he was talking about his methods, though, it got pretty dense. In the sections of his book, I was in a little over my head. The beginning started out pretty interesting; by the time he started elaborating stories behind other things, I got a little bored. I'm sure if I had more time to devote to reading it, I'd like it more. The vocabulary used is not terribly dense but I definitely wouldn't consider it to be light reading. From Hazel Smith, I learned a few new processes that I would be willing to try in my own writing, even if I'd only scrap them later. Looser things like playing with language seems like a good way to find new ways of writing as well.