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

[Robin Landseadel]

Well, obviously I'm insufficiently aware of what's going on here to  
handle Mondaugen's Story, it should be performed by someone who knows  
the score.

I don't like reading V., the dialog is embryonic, the set-ups are  
tedious, the characters cardboard. The more I read V., the less I like  
it.

I suggest that Alice take on chapter nine, because I don't want to  
waste my time arguing with him.


On Aug 18, 2010, at 5:05 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> 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.