Various stuff

Henry M gravity at nicom.com
Thu Jan 30 19:22:52 CST 1997


Looks like there will be too much for this here non-academic type to 
read this spring: M&D, American Pastoral, a-and a new Gaddis. Yow!

On 29 Jan 97 at 19:35, Mike Beiderbecke wrote:

> Various Snippages
> 
> <Robot>
>   _Sabbath's Theatre_, Roth's latest,  is very good.
>   Isn't it about time that wired put itself in the tired column?
>  Past time, actually.
> <Henry>
>         >Yeah! I also think a lot of the whole Zuckerman series.
> 
> Moi:
>         His really new one _American Pastoral_  (due may 12, 1997)
>         has a
> Zuckerman as narratorm and is excellent.
> 
> 
> <Then Tom on Paranoia>
>         Paranoia, like pornography, is one of many devices TRP uses.
>         I don't think there's a subtext that paranoids "get" any
>         better than any other reader. Nor is there a porno subtext,
>         u.s.b.
> 
> Moi:
>         Thats what we want you to believe.
> 
>         Although not an academic, but kind of curious, I might head
>         to Kentucky
> for a while in February around the 20th. Just to keep an eye on The
> Situation.
> 
>                         Later,
> 
>                                 Mike
> 
> 

My mother was of the sky... -- JL
My mother is the war...
Keep cool, but care. -- TRP
Moderation in moderation. -- Husky Mariner
Not having that, which having... :-(

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