MISTER Bill.

[grip at netcom.com]

On Fri, 28 Jul 1995, Brian Stonehill Media Studies Pomona College wrote:

> Please forgive the contumely of the subject line.

-Well, since you asked so nicely, okay. But don't let it happen again. 
With contumacious indifference he types on.
 
> But when grip asks, with that certain tone, 

Tonic? Subdominant?

> 
> >Should I bother to order Recognitions?
> 
> one has to say Yes, yes of course you must.  

*sigh* Why did I know someone would say yes. Someone is always 
answering questions of a purely rhetorical nature.

> That's landmark material, and if <uncle?> Bill's punctuation scheme looks 
> unfamiliar to you, look back at _Ulysses_ (or _A Portrait_)

Haven't (gasp) read _U_. Did read Portrait a year or so ago, but I don't 
recall having problems with punctuation. But I was in Nepal with a 
terrible case of diarrhea at the time, so I probably didn't get as much 
from it as I could have.

> for the authority of it. >

Is this like a precedence in legal circles? 

Well I'll plug away at MISTER Gaddis (Do I really have to shout the mister?)
and see what comes of it. There are some redeeming qualities in what I've 
so far read. I've not started JR yet. Let me frolic through _...His Own_ 
first.

> I've seen Gaddis and Pynchon glancingly compared in some book about the
> self-conscious novel.  The satirist and the sentimental surrealist give good
> dialogue.
> 
> Cheers,  Brian

And to you too, Brian. Thanks for the reply. :-)

grip