Rush to Judgement . . . HJ "The Art of Fiction" Authors must be Free to Fall

[Michael Bailey]

Campbel Morgan wrote:
>
> I'm not one to complain about missing Fanboys, even when they confuse an
> already confused prose style such as the one Mr. Pynchon employs with
> hysterical sentences that often add shopping lists to laundry lists to FAQs
> and how-do-you-dos I'm just getting my two sentences in before I'm
> introduced as yet another character thickening the stew or is it the pot?

the subject of "confuse" is "Fanboys" and you are criticizing the
writing on this list?

> But, and I must admit this first, while I applaud the freedom of fiction, I
> can not abide a tale that taxes me and disappoints me as well.

If I work out the syntax in your 1st sentence, will I be disappointed
or will I bite down on a pearl - like those found in, eg, mr Pynchon's works -
 that will send me to the dentist?
If I backtrack to other threads and figure out if you are building on a recent
reference to Fanboys (which one of us is missing? should we send out a
search party?) will I be rewarded in some cognizable way as often happens when
troubling to track references in a talented author's work?  If I
reread the James quote
(fameses?  Jameses?) will I glean its appositeness to your argument?

> The agony of Pynchon's prose is put up with when we span the globe, but when
> we're stuck inside a pothead's paradise in a Pasadena parking lot, even
> after a quick trip to Japan or Hawaii, it is a sort of pain up with which I
> will not put.
>

you and Mr Churchill would perhaps more readily relish a
brandy-tippler's soliloquy...

>  and the grammar of painting is so much
> more definite that it makes the difference.

yes, writing is like making the "waterballs" that that character in the B.C.
comic strip (Thor?) is occasionally seen throwing

welcome to the list, insofar as my charter stretches to extend welcome


- Lindsay Noseworth
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