COLGR49: "ha, ha"

christinekaratnytsky at juno.com christinekaratnytsky at juno.com
Wed Aug 1 12:57:09 CDT 2001


Quoth Kato:

> The original French was written in 1898, but was not published in 
> Jarry's lifetime, perhaps because, among other offenses, there's an
assult 
> on a Bishop (who drinks rat's piss !) ... the English translation was
put 
> out by  Grove in 1965 ... yes, scant time to make an impact on CLO49,
but 
> then ... it is a "Streamlined Doomsday Machine" ... ha, ha.

Not to quibble too much with a neat-sounding idea, but, considering that
early sections of COL49 were published as early as December 1965 (in
Esquire) and the full novel in 1966, I'm not sold.  Anything's possible,
but the time's way too scant for this one, even for a...genius.

ck
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