V-2: Re: BDSL, 1- Genetic Therapy for Inherent Vice

[alice wellintown]

The error P admits to, and that is as obvious to any serious reader of
fiction as the cockroach on the wedding cake never maked the novel
ugly. It's not ugly. It's quite astounding in its beauty; a romantic
sublime that saturates some of the prose of chapters like Mondaugan's
story put young P at the head of his class. The young P hasn't much
idea about how to make a novel, to put the parts together, exactly,
but, ironically, or maybe better lucky and young than tired and
tested,  that actually has some advantages as the work is read as a
new and fresh if at times disjointed and heavy handed work of a new
star;  he's the greatest slow learning copy cat of his generation and,
while CL49 suffers from the error noted, even to a greater extent
because it doesn't give P room to let it hang out, he advances the
american romance to new spaces and times once he gets the error out of
his system when he pens GR. To argue that the book is ugly and that
crapper IV is somehow lovely is demonstrate a total lack of aesthetic
....well, sorry Robin, but you wouldn't know beauty if Fina were
rubbing up against your pup-tenting-levis on the subway to spanish
harlem.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Aug 17, 2010, at 9:16 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> ok, you're saying there is a BDSL out there with an intro by P?
>>
>> I buy an occasional book...hafta get that one now...
>
> Great intro.
>
>>> influences ripping through it and out into, well, V. for one...IV for
>>
>> "rippling" through it, for Pete's sake!
>
> Allow me to argue with at least one of U-2.
>
> Ripping, yes I like it.
>
> I find at the core of "V." an essential ugliness I can't shake off, making
> it hard to continue reading "V." This earlier ode to entropy expresses this
> ugliness as "Man [actually Woman] into Machine." 'V."'s dual climax is the
> emergence/dissembling of the Cyborg in prototype form, & and the entrance of
> the stage machinery into La Jarretière — the act of thingness forcibly
> ripping into beingness.
>
> http://s50.radikal.ru/i128/1007/20/05e4be449085.jpg
>
> I'm looking for a quote from "Slow Learner":
>
>        The story is a fine example of a procedural error beginning
>        writers are always being cautioned against. It is simply wrong to
>        begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent,
>        and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
>
> Slow Learner, 12