Wolfe

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One of my brothers bugged me incessantly to read 'A Man in
Full' and I so I did. I liked the story about Conrad, a
young man that ends up in jail with a copy of Epictetus, but
I did not care for the story of Charlie Croaker-"the Man in
Full / back as broad as Jersey bull", or something like
that. The two stories slide towards one another with an
uneasy balance like the tectonic plates that liberate Conrad
from prison. Wolfe has journalistic cunning, a good talent
for spinning a yarn, but he often goes over the top without
seeming to realize it, then goes a little further, and well,
I don't want to critique Wolfe, there are lots of reviews of
the book on the internet. He makes good fun of the society
he knows intimately and he stumbles about in those he only
knows via diligent research assistants. So for example, 
Conrad only insists that "It's not right," when the legal
system does a Zoyd Wheeler on him.  The novel has one thread
that may interest Pynchon fans---Shit & Money. Anyway, the
Harper's Magaizine essay is not available on-line or I would
post it. It is very funny. And the most humorous thing about
the essay is the fact that the Dandy Wolfe attacks
intellectual Marxists for driving Jaguars, wearing
children's attire, being superfluously cynical, crossing off
disciplines, and turning language inside out and backwards
on students that haven't yet figured out what their High
School teachers didn't teach them about subjects and 
objects. 

Kept me from falling asleep and yo-yoing the E,  

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