Every Dog Has Its Day

[Charles Albert]

No....but I did see "Everything is Illuminated" - and continue to crack up
over the idea of Sammy Davis Jr. Jr.


love,
cfa

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:44 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Says as much about cultural attitudes towards dogs as it does the novel...
>
> Although maybe, in this context, the kind of dog referred to was the
> Learned English/Henry James-reading kind.
>
> Off-topic: anyone read Johnathan Safran Foer's latest ("Eating Animals")?
>
> Got through it in a day and have been haunted by it since, perhaps
> more than anything in the past few years. Harrowing stuff; not without
> major flaws (of a journalistic sort) but more obscene than GR could
> ever be labelled, if only for the non-fictional aspect of the
> material.
>
> I now wish I'd never been introduced to the term "fecal mist". But I
> also now realise it's the air we breathe.
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:23 PM, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > >  it's  such a shame that the most recent two of P's novels have been
> such dogs.
> >
> > I can understand some long-term Pynchonistas not being knocked out by
> > Inherent Vice, but to not like Against the Day, to consider it a
> > 'dog'?
>
>
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