AGTD & The Subtleties of Violence (Moody, Flannery O'Connor)

[rich]

wha's he on about? as my cousins would say across the Atlantic
wish I could ramble and get paid for it

On 8/2/09, Nushra MohamedKhan <nushramkhan at gmail.com> wrote:
> All this talk of Thomas R. Pynchon's readable beach burner soon to be
> available on DVD makes me question if these flesh and blood
> characters, who seem capable of emotions, violence, surfing
> ...characters with hearts though at times heartless, who come to life
> on the pages under a Dick's Private narrative, are not lacking in the
> subtelties of violnce.
>
> In AGTD the subtleties of violence saturate every page as we meet the
> ghosts of exterminates peoples, enslaved persons, the people who
> murdered them and enslaved them. It is the Civil War Part II and it is
> being waged in imperial colonial stratagies at home and abroad. No one
> is saved; the ceremony of innocense is strangled in its cradle; there
> is only shadow under the rock, but their is that voice, dry and even
> wry and witty that sustains us. Keeps us reading after characters
> morph into characters from previous novels and then like twins in a
> funhouse mirror are frightend away never to return and they drag the
> plot, the set, customes, even the hooks they and we had, if only
> tentatively  hung their hats on, out of the book. But this is what TRP
> does best. Call is hyterical or a bombed out mind or pleasures
> grotesque and groovey, but we know what is meant. There is less of it
> in VL and more of it in AGTD. The rubber, the gold, the mines, the
> labor, labor, labor, the payroll. Who are you working for if not for
> THEM? Historians play a game of bloodsport tales. Genocide Holocaust
> KIll Kill Kill and all the students moved away from the mad professor.
> Nothing subtle about a history of humanity--murder and money. Then
> sixty thousand are murdered by a sea storm and the wind. No reason.
> Not even the season for it. Kids go back to their dorm rooms, take
> comfort, and fuck, and feel better. Raise some money. Send it to the
> poor bastards. Watch a comedy. Laugh it off. Go to the beach. Read a
> Pynchon novel? Wha?
>
>
>
> Rick Moody:
> The Subtleties of Violence
> PEN America 2: Home and Away
>