IVIV (8): The Two Nixons

[Mark Kohut]

And don't you all forget his first so-interesting look at.....religios belief and so much more before he had Nixon to kick around: The Origin of the Brunists.

--- On Thu, 10/1/09, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:

> From: Page <page at quesnelbc.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (8): The Two Nixons
> To: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>, "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 9:13 PM
> rich is right. It is wonderful, so
> put it on your list. Coover is one of the 
> best lesser- known great American authors.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:53 PM
> Subject: Re: IVIV (8): The Two Nixons
> 
> 
> > there's robert coover loose trilogy about Nixon--The
> Public Burning,
> > Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears
> (Nixon as a
> > fighter for union labor and a horndog) and the
> wonderfully deranged A
> > Political Fable written in 68 yr of Nixon's
> election-aka The Cat in
> > the Hat for President.
> >
> > Coover's Journal during the writing of the Public
> Burning is very
> > interesting reading partly due to the sheer effort
> that Coover made to
> > keep up with all the new information emerging from
> watergate and the
> > research where he had to write all his notes in long
> hand at places
> > like the British Library
> > Beyond that, tho Coover skewers Nixon (like Uncle
> Sam's sodomizing of
> > same at the end of the book, or Nixon's liaison at
> Sing Sing with
> > Ethel Rosenberg or Hoover in drag, or the apocalyptic
> party at Times
> > Square where the Rosenbergs are pubicly eltrocuted--
> its very funny),
> > Nixon comes across as oddly sympathetic thruout the
> book as an
> > outsized outsider within Eisenhower's administration
> > I wish more folks would read it.  its wonderful
> >
> > rich
> >
> > rich
> >
> > On 9/30/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Dave Monroe
> >> <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> "the two Nixons"
> >>
> >> Bilocation?
> >>
> >
> 
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