slaggin' pynchon pre-Nobel

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

I think they should give it to Badger......he persisted through 
Recognitions TWICE - IN  ONE CALENDAR YEAR...


let's give it up for Scott, folks!


love,
cfa
> They're going to give it to Gaddis on the release date of his final
> novel.
> 
> Just read a review in the Village Voice with a nice paragraph:
> 
> "Agape rolls to a stop with a piercing sense of time running out-an
> emotional look backward, across the years and the thousands of pages,
> 'at the works of arrogant youth and the book I wrote then, my first
> book.' Call it The Recognitions, which bore on its title page the
> alchemical ouroboros, the serpent devouring its own tail. A breathless
> epilogue to an immense body of work, an acid tirade all too human with
> sentiment, Agape Agape could not have cut a more affecting path back
> to the source, a nearly 50-year course that affirms the ideal of the
> opus alchymicum, the work as self-generating recirculation. The Gaddis
> canon has gold, not paper, at its heart."
> http://www.villagevoice.com/vls/178/park.shtml
>