<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I'm feeling tender toward a reading myself. Thanks, motivators, you know who you are.<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Oct 4, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Keith Davis <<a href="mailto:kbob42@gmail.com">kbob42@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>That settles it. When I finish Blood Meridian, and complete the course of anti-depressants, TN is next.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:07 AM, alice wellintown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alicewellintown@gmail.com" target="_blank">alicewellintown@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">so, though I've read Fitz more times than I care to admit, and Gatsby<br>
more times than almost any other book, I was prompted to open TN and<br>
take a close reading look into how it is constructed. More on this<br>
later...but the names, a Mr Flesh, a couple of Neverquivers, Diver,<br>
and names that read like advetisments, an characters who comment on<br>
the jingles of names. So, nothing wrong with stupid names. Shakespeare<br>
was not afraid of them. Pynchon only pushes them to new lows, as in<br>
low puns, a comic tradition.<br>
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The faces; the sculpted bodies and faces are also there, not as in<br>
Hemingway or Faulkner.<br>
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