Personal Scatologies

[Paul Mackin]

Glad other Listers besides me don't mind novels with academic
settings. Lodge is a particular favorite. What I would really
like,  is to have Kingsley Amis back. Even though he did 
turn into a . . . never mind maybe I don't remember right.
But, Oh that Lucky Jim.

Can't think of much blue-collar stuff today. What happened
to people like Nelson Algren and James Jones? Oh yeah, the
80s happened to them. The high end got too glamourous

			P.

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> From: David Casseres <casseres at apple.com>
> To: no To-header on input <unlisted-recipients:;>
> Cc: Pynchon list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Personal Scatologies
> Date: Tuesday, February 04, 1997 3:13 PM
> 
> I wrote
> >> ... the 
> >> 20th-century spectacle of novel after novel after novel *about being a 
> >> university professor* is truly one the more hideous effects of 
> >> capitalism.
> 
> Andrew replies
> >Well, having just finished David Lodge's `Small World' I'll disagree
> >at least to the extent that this cloud comes complete with silver
> >lining. And I suspect Antonia Byatt's Possession (I have a sneaking
> >regard for some of her other stuff too) is another honourable
> >exception. Did anyone else note that they both quote the same line
> >from Hawthorne regarding `Romance'?
> 
> Oh, I didn't mean to imply at all that any novel about being a professor 
> is automatically a Bad Thing.  It's only that there aren't enough novels 
> about the rest of the gang.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> David
>