National Basketball Association Awards

[tbeshear]

I was prepared to send a snarky reply to this short, dismissive posting from 
malignd. However, after reading the link, I say he's spot on.
I mean: "Those who saw him hushed." And "It was a silence that heard 
itself."
I can't go on. I must go on:
"The man above remained rigid, and yet his mystery was mobile."

And all those lists. "Stenographers. Traders. Deliveryboys. Sandwichboard 
men. Cardsharks. Con Ed. Ma Bell. Wall Street." There's more where that came 
from, but you'll have to go see for yourself.

The language in the citation is priceless. In other words, I hope the writer 
of the citation wasn't paid. The adjectives, the adjectives! Plus, bonus 
points for "funambulist.":

"Like the funambulist at the heart of this extraordinary novel, Colum McCann 
accomplishes a gravity-defying feat: from ten ordinary lives he crafts an 
indelibly hallucinatory portrait of a decaying New York City, and offers 
through his generosity of spirit and lyrical gifts an ecstatic vision of the 
human courage required to stay aloft above the ever-yawning abyss."

I have a Barnes & Noble coupon for 50% off a hardcover. Guess I'll spend it 
on something that isn't this National Book Award winner. And I'll take this 
off my library hold requests.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <malignd at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: National Basketball Association Awards


This excerpt is some seriously bad writing.  And for numerous reasons.


-----Original Message-----
From: Keith <keithsz at mac.com>
To: Pynchon Index Cacorum <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 11:09 pm
Subject: National Basketball Association Awards


http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2009_f_mccann.html