Warlock

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Yoshihiko concludes his comments:
>
>Now, don't you guys think that _Warlock_ *is* connected to TRP's fictions?
>


I have been in the clutches of an e-vortex and none of my messages, I think, are 
getting onto the list.  If the have, I am hereby repeating myself, but WARLOCK is a 
great novel, and very connected to P.'s work.  Though I haven't read it but once, 
and that 6 years ago, I remember distinctly the feel of--textuality--it conveys 
reminding me of the flavor of P's texts.  The notion of official collusion, the loyalty 
to preterites of all types, the use of --low--genre to say high art things, the modern 
world's birth and growth as an inexorable process of grinding up and flattening out 
the angels of innocent possibility, and the use of language, writing, images of texts 
to convey something of that old delta-t between --words and the things they stand 
for--(GR).  All there.

And as I have also said earlier.  This novel was actually made into a cheesy 
Hollywood movie back in the 50's w/ Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, maybe even 
Henry Fonda (though I think not).  The film is locked into its own generic 
limitations; the novel takes the genre and transmutes it into the gold of a Western 
sunset.

See you on boot hill

john m