"1984" and "Gravity's Rainbow"

[Robin Landseadel]

A: Campbel Morgan wrote:

> A lot of recycled and cutting-room-floor in AGTD. Reminds me of Hamlet
> in this respect. Hamlet is cutting-room floor material slapped
> together into the longest, by far,  play Shakespeare wrote; it's full
> of speeches and plays within plays that don't hold together, loose and
> at times quite rediculous; the young Hamlet giving acting lessons to
> professional actors, for example.



B: Campbel Morgan wrote:
> Silly pretentious me. Shakespeare's Hamlet is the longest play he
> wrote. AGTD is the longest work of YBA. Shakespeare's Hamlet, as any
> pretentious and silly reader of literature knows, is a materwork,
> loose, tossed together, pieces of other plays never produced,
> arguments with several of his contemporaries, the theatre wars as they
> are sometimes called, and a bunch of stuff he wrote at times when the
> theatre was shut down for plague and other reaosns. A reader who has
> read of the play and AGTD can not fail to see the parallels.


So—is your  premise that Hamlet is cutting-room floor material or is  
your premise that Hamlet is a "materwork?"