: TMoP by Larwence Bryan

[K3 V iN Cummiskey]

This reads better than reading any short selection from the book in question.  The book in question reads like a more emotional Hemingway, and in the fire too long.


--- On Fri, 9/5/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: TMoP
> To: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 2:07 PM
> But this is NOT "The Master of Petersburg", just a
> bit from within it that
> is an allusion to Stavrogin's Confession (originally
> left out of "The Possessed")
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 9/5/08, Joe Allonby
> <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: TMoP
> > To: "Lawrence Bryan"
> <lebryan at speakeasy.net>
> > Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 1:39 PM
> > Sounds more like an HBO series.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Lawrence Bryan
> > <lebryan at speakeasy.net>wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > If Madison Avenue were running a campaign for
> readers
> > of The Master of
> > > Petersburg, my guess for an excerpt would be:
> > >
> > > "If he were more confident of his French he
> would
> > channel this disturbing
> > > excitement into a book of the kind one cannot
> publish
> > in Russia - something
> > > that could be finished off in a hurry, in two or
> three
> > weeks, even without a
> > > copyist - ten signatures, three hundred page. A
> book
> > of the night, in which
> > > every excess would be represented and no bounds
> > respected ... With a chapter
> > > in which the noble memoirist reads aloud to the
> young
> > daughter of his
> > > mistress a story of the seduction of a young girl
> in
> > which he himself
> > > emerges more and more clearly as having been the
> > seducer. A story full of
> > > intimate detail and innuendo which by no means
> seduces
> > the daughter but on
> > > the contrary frightens her and disturbs her sleep
> and
> > makes her so doubtful
> > > of her own purity that three days later she gives
> > herself up to him in
> > > despair, in the most shameful of ways, in a way
> of
> > which no child could
> > > conceive were the history of her own seduction
> and
> > surrender and manner of
> > > its doing not deeply impressed on her
> > beforehand."
> > >
> > > However this is a serious group of readers and
> using
> > such an excerpt to
> > > gain readers is something I would never do.
> > >
> > > Lawrence
> > >
> > >
> > >