NP Vollmann's / Heinrich Boell / OBAFGKMRNS

[Paul Mackin]

On Jul 5, 2006, at 2:29 AM, mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Otto [mailto:ottosell at yahoo.de]
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>> Up to now, it is quite informative, I liked the pieces on Kaethe
>> Kollwitz ("Woman with Dead Child"), the various chapters on  
>> Shostakovich
>> & his women and the one on Roman Karmen ("Far and Wide My Country
>> Stretches") very much.
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> Yes, the Kathe Kollwitz chapter was great!  I felt inferior reading  
> the Shostakovich bits because I didn't know the pieces he was  
> talking about.  Perhaps if I listen to them I can finish the novel...

Does one have to have seen a V2 launch to  "get" Gravity's Rainbow?  
No, the authors words describe the event sufficiently.

Europe Central is fiction. At least  that's what it won the National  
Book Award for.  In any event,  it's not something one should read  
for reliable information.

My own humble opinion only.

P.





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> Finished "Group Portrait with Lady" in English and liked it a lot.   
> Would like to read it in German sometime... but "Die Verlorene  
> Ehre" has arrived aus Deutschland and is comfortingly thin.
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> On page 200 of Mason & Dixon, the phrase "Oh, Be a Friendly Girl,  
> Kiss me Right Now Sweet-heart" crops up.  I've been wondering if on  
> Mason's return to his home, the different characters in the chapter  
> might relate to the different types of stars (ie, they are "the  
> stars in his sky") - there seem to be around the right  
> number...there might even be a way to include the bread
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