The WreckIgnitions Read. On How not What

[Mark Kohut]

WG ain't as lyrical as TRP, true or false?  As Bill Gass shows, he is a fancy 
prose alliteralist, at least...

Long packed paragraphs then we get a segue sentence like: 

p. 4 "That was the morning."-----{This Ticking off Genesis memories to 
me...."The morning and the evening of the first day" or close...}

Then such as "That settled it."....

I like this full-in-the-faceness then a short sharp drop. (There is probably a 
musical as well as a rhetorical name for such but
don't look at me)...

I like it on the page a LOT..............

And another thing, Vickery sez, using Eliot's The Wasteland as THE key example, 
in fact he sorta argues that what I am going to say
is what Eliot used to BECOME the Eliot of The Wasteland on....................

What he sez is that all Frazer's volumes, chronicling rituals and rites from 
culture after culture are, literarily, scene after emblematic scene  
that add up to a whole picture of a culture.......................which is the 
style of The Wasteland where image after impressionistic image is
part of the largely original style of The Wasteland ............

and which has been followed by many, many 20th Century writers.......

not least Gaddis, I would say. {Vickery doesn't seem to have read him]