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[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

--- Charles Albert wrote:

> For fun, you might want to take a bite out of "St.
> Petersburg".........


Bely, the author, could be a long-lost distant Russian cousin; yet another book I've never heard of but sounds good



Daniel Julius wrote:
>Point is, I'm starting to believe that if you want to talk about the fun in literature, you better drag yr ass into journalism, lest academia squeeze the life out of >it for you.

I keep relating to it (scholarly language) as a Glass Bead Game. If a person worked and lived with words like "phallologocentrism" and "liminality" all the time, eventually they might begin to mean something and become a valued part of one's word hoard. (I hypothesize. From experience, though, I can vouch that these words are fun to say, as is the name "Baudrillard" (or the phrase I read in an anarchist critique: "that scumbag Baudrillard")) Each one would connote the various thinkers' spins on it, and evoke events in one's own past like Proust's madeleine. Praxeologically, such words might "leap to mind" when trying to convey various literary points and perhaps even be a shorter and more convenient way of expressing them.

Entree into literary critical (critterary?) journalism still requires an academic chop of some kind, and/or else prior publication, doesn't it?


Dave Monroe said:
This reminds me, as this holiday season approacheth,
let us be in particular thankful to our gracious hosts
with the, uh, mosts, Murthy and Oliver ...

http://waste.org/pynchon-l/

... without whom and so forth and so on. But, no,
really, teh service they're doing for teen chat rooms
alone by keeping us too occupied to check 'em out ...

But, seriously, thanks not only for the years of
edutainment, 'cos this thing is about to get as busy,
and, likely, as cantankerous as it's ever been ...
Hear, Hear!
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Paul Mackin and I convened on the topic of coprophagous brass:
sez I, 
"What do you do with a general, when he stops being a general?" (this doesn't mean I don't still like the movie "White Christmas")


to which he noted, 
Elect him the American president
1. George Washington, Revolutionary War
2. Andrew Jackson, War of 1812
3. William Henry Harrison, War of 1812
4. Zachary Taylor, Mexican War
5. Franklin Pierce, Mexican War
6. Andrew Johnson, Civil War
7. Ulysses Simpson Grant, Civil War
8. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Civil War
9. James Abram Garfield, Civil War
10. Chester Allan Arthur, Civil War
11. Benjamin Harrison, Civil War
12. Dwight David Eisenhower, World War II
- I never knew war had elevated so many! - which fits with a notion I've been playing with recently: "USA - chief natural resource, the bellicosity of its people. Principal export: armed conflict." 
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Ya Sam wrote:
>The other day I asked whatever happened to Alexander 
>Theroux, 

-- one of the linked articles you cited mentions briefly his suffering his own sort of "macaca" non-PC utterance fiasco, and losing big charisma points (and day job) in the academic RPG. Well, actions have consequences, live and learn...sounds like it gave him more time for writing anyway




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