Whatcha readin?

[the Robot Vegetable]

	just finished _Accident_ by Nicholas Mosley. An
afterword by Steven Weisenburger mentions Pynchon:

	"The great modernist novels -- Ford's _The Good Soldier_
or Faulkner's _The Sound And The Fury_ -- always resolve conflicts
in discourse by recontextulaizing them at some higher level of
authority.  Postmodern writers make no such move. Their resolution
is through an awareness of the linguistic bases of knowledge. That
awareness brings with it a suspicion of words like "realism" because,
as Mosley well knows, we have too easily used them to connote our sense
of continuity, connection, and causality -- then awarded privileged
status to that sense.  To his American counterparts, like John
Hawkes and Thomas Pynchon, that awareness often also means dark
comedy and apocalypse."

   Finished recently:

	_Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_ Anita Loos, wherein Sigmund
Freud is refered to as Froyd;
	_Written On The Body_ Jeanette Winterson;
	_Go Down, Moses_ William faulkner.

   And I am in the exquisite time between books.  I may start in on
_The Recognitions_, or like every other book I've read recently, may
not even consider reading the next choice before I choose it.  I am
trying to work off some of my sagging shelves of book-to-be-read.

   Not listening to anything these days.


	veg