closer and closer he tries to read, asking questions

[Kevin Dunn]

Love the mathematical metaphors! Especially "(projecting)" the  
Riemannian metric, and honorable mention goes to the two characters  
being characterized as eigenvectors. If only I had read the Roth book,  
then I would have the whole story, as they say.

Kevin

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On May 5, 2009, at 3:19 AM, Michael Bailey  
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark Kohut wrote:
>>
>> But she married Mucho instead.....Mucho, Mucho, more on  
>> mucho......talk to us, Mucho....
>>
>
>
> okay, in 1962 Philip Roth published _Letting Go_ about a couple who
> remind me of O and W a bit,
> just in terms of people who've had their sensibilities rubbed raw
> against the world, in different ways...
>
> the husband's horrible painter uncle has an eigenvalue relation with
> Pierce, too, a bit, in my mind...
>
> I mention this not to suggest emulation but just in terms of early 60s
> people in fiction...2 great masters of prose working in the same time
> frame...
> which I couldn't help drawing (projecting) Riemannian parallels  
> between...
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> "For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as.
> For the moment anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are." - GR, p
> 136