Dude - incredibly good, granular background material. Nicely done! We now all have a serious splash-down target zone...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Erik T. Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eburns@gmail.com">eburns@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">and just in case you need more connective tissue linking WG and TRP, according to the WUSTL documentation, William Gaddis was the writer for a film produced by Hunter Low for the US Army in 1965, called "The Battle of St Vith." <a href="http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00420.html" target="_blank">http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00420.html</a><div>
<br></div><div>The Battle of St Vith was the first engagement of the Battle of the <i>fucking </i>Bulge: <a href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/7-8/7-8_17.htm" target="_blank">http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/7-8/7-8_17.htm</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">also: "the chaplains out in the Bulge are manly, haggard, hard drinkers" (Gravity's Rainbow p135)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">and of course because of the miracle of the internet, you can watch the movie here:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">Part I: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tdy_O81rLw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tdy_O81rLw</a><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">Part II: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JozuB1NFtg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JozuB1NFtg</a></div>
<div><a href="http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00420.html" target="_blank"></a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Erik T. Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eburns@gmail.com" target="_blank">eburns@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">o-oh and I forgot the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Finding-Aid for the William Gaddis Papers </span>at Washington University, St Louis: <a href="http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00049.html" target="_blank">http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00049.html</a></font><div>
<font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">I just found this gem, which is all kinds of On-Topic for the Pynchon-l:</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b>From Donadio, Candida to Gaddis, William , 1963: March 05 </b></font></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b>sent from NYC; concerns tarot card reading</b><br>
<br>(Steven Moore is editing a collection of WG's correspondence to be published by the Dalkey Archive). </font></td><td><br></td><td><br></td><td><br></td><td></td><td colspan="9" valign="top"><br><br><br></td></tr>
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<div> </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Erik T. Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eburns@gmail.com" target="_blank">eburns@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">There's not much reason to spend time googling Gaddis' references: the collaborative annotations at <a href="http://williamgaddis.org" target="_blank">williamgaddis.org</a> have that well in hand, though of course always open to suggestions & improvements.</font><div>
<font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">the annotations site also has the <i>ne plus ultra</i> of Gaddis experts, Steven Moore, contributing regularly (also to the Gaddis List), and his fantastic book <i>William Gaddis (</i>1989<i>) </i>is available online and for free as some kind of remarkable public benefit: <a href="http://www.williamgaddis.org/mooregaddisbk/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.williamgaddis.org/mooregaddisbk/index.shtml</a></font></div>
<div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The complete text of Jack Green's <i>Fire the Bastards!</i>, a deliciously virulent and eccentric lambasting of the critics of <i>The Recognitions</i> and a chilling book for book reviewers everywhere, is also available free online at: <a href="http://www.nyx.net/%7Eawestrop/ftb/ftb.htm" target="_blank">http://www.nyx.net/~awestrop/ftb/ftb.htm</a></font></div>
<div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><i>The Recognitions of Clement</i> is also online, along with all sorts of paleochristian texts the sorts of which the Rev Gwyon is so deeply steeped in: <a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.vi.iii.i.html" target="_blank">http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.vi.iii.i.html</a></font></div>
<div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Finally, there's a <i>Paris Review</i> interview with William Gaddis from 1986: <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2577/the-art-of-fiction-no-101-william-gaddis" target="_blank">http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2577/the-art-of-fiction-no-101-william-gaddis</a> -- "<span style="line-height: 21px;">What’s any artist but the dregs of his work: I gave that line to Wyatt thirty-odd years ago and as far as I’m concerned it’s still valid."</span></font></div>
<div><span style="line-height: 21px;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 21px;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">a resource pony I would find wonderful: a collection of the artworks mentioned in Gaddis, including the solids in Uccello ;-) </font></span><a href="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2008/03/the-solids-in-u.html" target="_blank">http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2008/03/the-solids-in-u.html</a></div>
<div><span style="line-height: 21px;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><font color="#888888"><div><span style="line-height: 21px;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">etb</font></span></div>
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<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Richard Ryan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:himself@richardryan.com" target="_blank">himself@richardryan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
These prognoses of cognitive dissonance and labyrinthine interpretive<br>
descent make the effort sound....even more appealing...<br>
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:18 PM, David Morris <<a href="mailto:fqmorris@gmail.com" target="_blank">fqmorris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Group reads almost never work, but that doesn't stop P-listers from<br>
> continuing to bang their heads against their keyboards. _The<br>
> Recognitions_ will probably be really impossible, because (and I'm<br>
> barely acquainted w/ it) it isn't Pynchon (who writes things begging<br>
> to be Googled).<br>
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> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Erik T. Burns <<a href="mailto:eburns@gmail.com" target="_blank">eburns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> foax: schooling is for fish.<br>
>> I'm not sure a group read of _The Recognitions_ is going to work, here or anywhere.<br>
>> The book is very long and kind of takes over your life if you let it. (_J R_ too...)<br>
>> That said, there's plenty to talk about. etb<br>
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>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:16 PM, David Morris <<a href="mailto:fqmorris@gmail.com" target="_blank">fqmorris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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