Was Augie March thread, misc.

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I wonder whether TRP liked Bellow's work better than Bellow liked his,

Also in Slow Learner, Pynchon explains, "At the simplest level, it had 
to do with language. We were encouraged from many directions--Kerouac 
and the Beat writers, the diction of Saul Bellow in The Adventures of 
Augie March, emerging voices like those of Herbert Gold and Philip 
Roth--to see how at least two very distinct kinds of English could be 
allowed in fiction to coexist. Allowed! It was actually OK to write 
like this! Who knew? The effect was exciting, liberating, strongly 
positive."

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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Was Augie March thread, misc.


I just watched, again, Todd Haynes' interpretation of Dylan---early 
life at least---the movie"I'm Not There".....and in it there is a scene 
in which Dylan leaves a limo after being "interviewed"by an  ultrasmug 
hit man of a journalist---the guy said to be the inspiration for Mr. 
Jones inthat song, I believe---and, as Dylan leaves, upset--being 
played by the Blanchett character here---he says: "I knowall I need to 
know about you, you don't know anything about me"......!!An artist to 
journalist archetype? An artist v. world urban legend?....Couldn't 
believe my ears.... ----- Original Message ----From: Mark Kohut 
<markekohut at yahoo.com>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>Sent: Sat, 
March 27, 2010 1:43:46 PMSubject: Was Augie March thread, misc.I wonder 
whether TRP liked Bellow's work better than Bellow liked his, as SB's 
reaction to it hasbeen brought up on the plist, I believe. I bet he 
did: P's reading seems very large-hearted, snubbing nothing 
pre-emptively and maybe liking little but trivial, mediocre books, 
which he probably has long avoided.Here's a P tangent involving one of 
P's first great 'getters', Tony Tanner. Tanner's penetrating 
of P's meanings, style and early achievement-- without a net, as it 
were, is very commendable, as has been said (by Rich, at least, I 
think). Anyway, I heard a story which I later did find in print---which 
means, if it is not true, it is now institutionalized as 
truth!----about Saul and Tony being at the same literary party (In 
London, I think). Tanner had written on Saul B's work aswell, of 
course. Someone at the party asked Tanner if he had ever met Saul and 
he said No. The person decidedto introduce them. He took Tony over to 
Saul, who when he learned who he was snubbed him with a line like 
this:"I know everything I need to know about him; he knows nothing 
about me."...Ah, the literary life...