Stone et al (z.B. Vonnegut, McCarthy)

[Richard Romeo]

When I'm old and gray 
Fearing death and leaking liquids
Do I really want to have Blood Meridian on my bedside table
Along with the diseased mucus rolled in paper tissues
And innumerable bottles of pills?

Horror has its delights
But only for the young

Richard 

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* Though its author was already born in 1922, "Slaughterhouse 5" [1969] 
should, next to the Rainbow, certainly be named here -- KFL +

PS. And then there's "Blood Meridian" [1985] whose author came to
this world in 1933.

PPS. I guess Mr. Gentle does file these titles under
"most aggressively uncooperative literature" ...
May it be like that!


<WHPI at aol.com> schrieb:
> A question: what was the last "great" book by a member of the American
> postmodern gang (those born, say, post-1925, but not after 1940)?  
> How far back do we have to go?  A  quarter century, at least.
> I am thinking of Gravity's Rainbow and JR.  Other suggestions?
>