Chap 16, The Price of Wisdom is above Ruby's...

[Richard Romeo]

There is too much of this in the book, alas
My lack of motivation in really caring about iv goings on continues to  
concern me despite the flashes of wit and erudition

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On Nov 29, 2009, at 11:16 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> Corny allusions are an element of P's juvenile style. We either enjoy
> this element of his style or we put up with it. Wood's complaint,
> however, is not limited to P's juvenile style of writing, but extends
> to his juvenile characters and how P fails to provide a reason why
> readers should care about them. Indeed, P deliberately pulls, not only
> the rug out from under the reader's conventional expectations about
> characters, but also the floor or ground. Shasta is back? And? She is
> back. Does Larry care? Does anyone? Should the reader? What about the
> postcard? What about it? Who cares? Denis, Bigfoot, Fritz, other "less
> devloped" characters expect that Larry will care; they tell him that
> Shasta is back in town. These dialogues about Shasta's return place
> emphasis on Larry's reaction, but his reaction is subdued. He doesn't
> seem to care. He runs out and into Bigfoot and goes to see Penny. Of
> course, Shasta suggested he go see Penny the last time she returned
> from wherever (CH. 1). And he did. We go along. P tosses in a few more
> jokes and set-pieces and sex. Shasta? Who cares? That Penny is head
> down in Larry's penis. Juvenile? You could say that.
>
>
>>
>> I like the joke that the burgers killed so many mice and roaches
>> there were no health-code violations. Others besides james wood
>> find it juvenile?
>>
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