Does the Broken Estate Have a Heart?

[Campbel Morgan]

The comparison is Pugnax with HJ & Thomas Pynchon.  Tuff dogs who read
French literature. I'm not so sure about the comparison of Venice with
NYC, but two of the most beautiful cities in the world; great dining
too. And, I think Paul argued that beauty is theme in AGTD. I agree.
Yeah, it's tough being an artist or, if HJ is wrong and authors of
fiction are not worthy of that name, an entertainer or sorts. We
surely must admire HJ for his work and for his spirit; pragmatic
though he was, he wanted to write theatre, to exercise his freedom as
an artist. It takes a pugnacious pen and maybe a penthouse of one's
own; above it all; far from the maddening crowd. Was it Sullivan who
screamed at the harpies that were his wife and daughter. Maybe it was
Melville. Both. What happened to all that rich food Pugnax was
guarding? Did he consume it?

OK, back to The Road; my heart is pounding the man just shot the
skinny truck cannibal dude who held a knife to the boy's throat. A
Tell Tale Heart of a novel.




On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Campbel Morgan wrote:
>
>> from Joseph Conrad's _Notes on Life and Letters_ (J. M. Dent edition,
>> 1921):
>> HENRY JAMES--AN APPRECIATION--1905
>>
>> The critical faculty hesitates before the magnitude of Mr. Henry
>> James's work. . .
>
> So I take it that Joseph Conrad was Henry James' fanboy?
>
> I mean seriously, that's some kind of a major-league example of overwritten
> hyperbole.
>
> You're still comparing apples and elevators.
>