Slothrop & Invisible Man (My Two Teeth) For what it's worth

[Emma Wrigley]

Well maybe some universities will start courses on studying books of a
certain shape or length or even perhaps based on the letters in the
author's name. The fact is there exist places where Jewish-American
Literature is studied as Jewish-American Literature. I'm a Scot and know
that Scottish Literature is studied as a whole too. It doesn't bother
me, nor does it bother me that there are some people who find Scottish
literature tiresome, because frankly some of it is.

I've read a tonne and would probably fight tooth and nail to avoid doing
a group read on Grassic Gibbon for instance. Of course it could be
argued that 'Jewishness' is a far cry from 'Scottishness', but that
would arguably be cultural vanity.

<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Monte Davis [montedavis at verizon.net]
>Sent: 15/5/2010 8:24:39 PM
>To: alicewellintown at gmail.com;pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: RE: Slothrop & Invisible Man (My Two Teeth) For what it's 
>worth
>
>alice wellintown writes:
>
>>My point was that Jewish American prose fiction can be placed in a
>group and studied.
>
>So can rectangular books, books with chapters shorter than 3000 words,
or
>books whose 215th sentence begins with the letter "M" -- and to only
>slightly less sensible purpose.
>
>
>.
> 
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