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

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

> 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 
> 


° Hallo Rich,

I like your poem. 

On the level of literature discussion, however,
I've got problems with your argument.

Isn't Art about Truth?

Was "Blood Meridian" written by Stephen King?

Doesn't it - like "Slaughterhouse 5" and "Gravity's Rainbow" -
shed a light on episodes of American history that do manifest
the real story and will probably soon be reloaded? 

Though me sees tired Robert Mitchum eyes and a lot of grey hair when 
I look into the mirror, I accept being called "young" here ... I mean, 
everybody is aging and so this here has become some kind of Pynchon 
senior center with visitors from younger cohorts to drop in now and
then ... (If you want debates on new popular music or actual questions
like the one whether DVD bonus tracks suck and if so why, you have to
lurk on Wallace-list where the populations's age structure is more
balanced.) While my children always tell me how very old I do appear,
here I will stay a kid until the end of days. Kinda cool. It's just 
that I don't believe my literature taste will change that much in the 
future. So it's probably not really about age. Otherwise the opinion 
that M&D is better than GR would find more advocates here ...
 
With "mucus rolled in paper tissues" I recommend "The Runaway Soul";     
but then I seem to be the only Brodkey reader in the house.


Yours, Kai


> 
> * 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?
> > 
> 
> 
>