Shirley Hazzard, Anne Tyler and 1 last rambling Larouche/Trotskii comment

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

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> From: Ya Sam [mailto:takoitov at hotmail.com]
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> Shirley Hazzard (Transit of Venus)
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> Interesting title. I've met it somewhere before.
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Ya, the Transit figures heavily in M&D, if that's what you mean. 
I can't remember all the details of the Hazzard book, but I think there's an anecdote about somebody who tried to observe it, missed it, waited a great many years and missed it again; which she links to somebody's attempt(s) to find love...sorry to be so vague, but I read it a long time ago - no spoilers in my description, anyway...
I remember relishing the book a lot though
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A1d58c25A71pVq36861B4BiographyShirley Hazzard was born in 1931 in Sydney, Australia. As a child she travelled the world due to her parents? diplomatic postings and at 16, worked for the British Intelligence in Hong Kong, monitoring civil war in China. After this she lived in New Zealand, Europe, USA and Italy. In the USA she worked for the United Nations Secretariat in New York. 
Since leaving this post she has been a full-time writer and passionate opponent of the United Nations, the subject of her book Defeat of an Ideal: A Study of the Self-Destruction of the United Nations (1973). She has also written non-fiction books Countenance of Truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim Case (1990) about the Kurt Waldheim case, and Greene on Capri: A Memoir (2000) about her friend, Graham Greene. In 1985, Coming of Age in Australia was published, a collection of her Australian Broadcasting Corporation Boyer lectures.
Shirley Hazzard?s works of fiction include five novels: The Evening of the Holiday (1966); People in Glass Houses (1967); The Bay of Noon (1970); The Transit of Venus (1980); and most recently, after a break of over 20 years, The Great Fire (2003). This book was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. 
Shirley Hazzard lives in New York.

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I actually studied Anne Tyler in a class; but my whole family were already fans of hers. I particularly liked Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. She is publicity-averse, but there's an interview at http://www.failbetter.com/20/TylerInterview.htm
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http://larouchepub.com/lar/2001/2818laronvernadsky.html makes some interesting statements too. I've already discredited myself last year on the list by admitting I like David Icke's writing, so I lose nothing by admitting I'm a bit of a fan of Larouche's prose. I've seen fairly credible accounts of him being responsible for kitten-killings, and his European group for being suspiciously implicated in the death of a young man; so please don't think I'm proselytizing for him. You will not see me in a parking lot handing out leaflets demanding a "new Bretton Woods" for instance, or tailing Kissinger's limousine shouting about how that Nobelist "Foley-izes" young boys (both of which actions have been convincingly attributed to Larouche adherents) ------- but his writings are thought-provoking, copious, anti-establishment (which isn't necessarily always a Good Thing), self-consistent (and therefore by Goedel's theorem, incomplete...)
However, I was running with gp's larger thesis about Trotsky's influence, and in terms of the preterite/Elect, Tristero/establishment dichotomy, wondering which camp Trotskyists would fall into. Suggesting maybe a tripolar arrangement: the "Ins", the "Outs" and the "indispensable proles" -- where (with gratitude to the Hollander essays) the Rockefeller camp would be the current ins (and perhaps Strauss or William Buckley the intellectual father), the Morgan camp the outs (with perhaps oh Bryan or Alfred Jay Nock, or Mises as standard bearer), and then your proles falling into a state governed by anarchist thinkers like Proudhon or Kropotkin...and leading to reflections on anarchist miracles, entropy, conservation of information (10th generation replication of a face, telling Death to fuck off)...and back to then Russia with Lenin as elect, Trotsky as preterite, but still there's a 3rd force because both of these are elitist, cadre-type things just like a ruling class in a capitalist nation (but how else can a meritocracy be erected and sustained?) - which not everybody can belong to, so when they're not perforce earning bread and salt by being adherents to the ins or outs, the various schlemihls of the world should unite under the aegis of mutual aid...ramble ramble ramble... 


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