Glancing at Donald Barthelme

[Glenn Scheper]

Five hours later, Dave Monroe's links have certainly set
my intended programming session back. I especially liked
the full text of Freud's Uncanny. But I don't like Fraud.
With all the authority of the Devil, he denies God in me,
Worse, I am tempted to believe him!

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http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/barthelme.html
 Scriptorium - Donald Barthelme

As I red* this paragraph--not the paragraph before it, for
I reread and am sure it centers on this on--I got the idea
"promiscuous": (*Typo repaired byt purposely restored.)

<< Barthelme's genius was to tap the postmodern welter
 of confused values and random, arbitrary emanations,
 billions of ethically-indistinguishable voices each shouting
 its own discourse like a wild-eyed junkyard evangelist, and
 whip it all up into a poignant, harmonious fugue.>>

A NIC (network interface card) is said to be operating
in "promiscuous mode" if it collects all packets, rather
than only the packets addressed to this NIC's address.

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http://www.coldbacon.com/barthelme.html
 Donald Barthelme - Writer

http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contem
porary/barthelme_do.html
 Heath Anthology of American Literature 4/e Donald|Barthelme - Author Page

http://www.magicalrealism.com/authors/13.html
 Magical Realism : Donald Barthelme

http://www.du.edu/~bkiteley/barthelme.htm
 Brian Kiteley answers questions about Donald Barthelme

http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2004/04/13/donald_barthelme.php
 Donald Barthelme’s reading list (Phil Gyford: Writing)

http://www.eskimo.com/~jessamyn/barth/colby.html
 jessamyn.com: Donald Barthelme : some of us had been threatening our friend
colby

http://www.jessamyn.com/barth/lear.html
 jessamyn.com: Donald Barthelme : The Death of Edward Lear

http://www.latexnet.org/~burnt/Game.html
 GAME: By Donald Barthelme


This smattering of links convinces me to ignore Barthelme.
No, I was convinced on the first page, but I wanted to be
comprehensive.

Not like Pynchon, whose found one line of text quoted sent
me to the bookstore to find out, What's up? Rather Bart is
like my youth misspent reading joke books and Sunday Times
cartoons--essential training to do simulacrum doublethink,
but which wanders aimlessly, like Brownian motion, across,
normal to, having no cross product, casting no reflection,
upon tantric hermeneutics.

To use a word the english teachers scare me away from: It
is like the IRONY of Plato recording Socrates antipoetics,
Plato being the first among mimeticists to dilute Socrates'
insights into parts of the soul with florid mere reasoning.
Barthelme's is an empty practice of scrambling, sans raison.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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Ps. Six hours now.