Superb landscapes full of horrible glory

[pynchonoid]

I sent an email to the address given in the SF
Chronicle story, heard back from Hirschman (he's in
Italy right now), and ordered a copy of the book.  He
said he'll mail it at the end of the month when he
comes back to the Bay Area. 

I'll report back if it's any good.

>[..]
> 
> " In fact, "The Arcanes" is in every way as unlikely
> and historically 
> significant a literary production as, say, the
> appearance of Walt Whitman's 
> "Leaves of Grass" or James Joyce's "Ulysses." Had
> this been another, more 
> literate age, "The Arcanes" might very well be as
> universally acclaimed. 
> For, like Whitman's and Joyce's masterpieces, it
> traces the progress of an 
> individual consciousness through landscapes teeming
> with the horrible glory 
> of modern life. And like "Ulysses," it is a poetic
> evocation of a voice so 
> authoritatively essential that the brilliance and
> beauty of these poems 
> might shake the world, if only someone were
> listening.
> [...]
> 
>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/12/RVGP4M40D11.DTL&feed=rss.books
> 
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