McElroy's Lookout Cartridge

[Toby G Levy]

Funny that there is a sudden spate of LC mentions on the p-list.  Just
the other day I was going through some papers and stumbled across a
photcopy I had made years ago of a brief review of Lookout Cartridge when
it was first publsihed.  I didn't write the name of the magazine or the
date, but the review is by one Carol Holmes, and it contains my favorite
assessment of McElroy:

"Lookout Cartridge is not a novel to be savored, in a comfortable
armchair by a fire.  It should be read at a metal desk in a pale green
office under flourescent ligts -- or perhaps over a cup of coffee at some
long-forgotten Automat.  It is a mean and lonely piece of work."

Work is the operative word here.  I always have to WORK my way through
his books.  In my humble opinion, McELroy could very likely have used a
random word generator to write "Plus."  The book makes absolutely no
sense to me. Sorry.

Toby

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