OT-- pensive pop and orwell pop

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Dave Monroe wrote:
> April March (a.k.a. Spumco animator
> Elinor Blake), on the other hand,

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Even more heterodox is the "regressive, ramified novel", titled
April March, whose third (and only) part is dated 1936. In judging
this novel, no one would fail to discover that it is a game; it
is only fair to remember that the author never considered it
anything else.

"I lay claim in this novel," I have heard him [Herbert Quain] say,
"to the essential features of all games: symmetry, arbitrary rules,
tedium." Even the title of the book is a feeble pun: it does not
mean the march of April, but literally March-April [sic - I have
neither the original text nor other translations on me, but recall
that it should be "literally April March" - anyone? HR]. Someone
has perceived an echo of Donne's doctrines; Quain's prologue prefers
to evoke the inverse world of Bradley in which death precedes birth,
the scar the wound, and the wound the blow (Appearance and Reality,
1897, page 215) [---]
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