The WreckIgnitions Read. Stray strugglingly playful thoughts

[Mark Kohut]

Which is why, in some senses, writing about reading Gaddis is not so much 
explication as
about discussing, pointing to, ete............and elaborating on (via tangential 
mini-essays)
Yes?




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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, April 8, 2011 1:58:17 PM
Subject: Re: The WreckIgnitions Read. Stray strugglingly playful thoughts


Erik writes: 
okay, fair enough! consider me bridled.
rest assured that most questions you have about all these things will be 
answered by WG repeatedly as we go. He is not one to hide his themes; he wears 
them on his sleeve. (in fact, this is what irks me about the criticism of Gaddis 
as Mr. Difficult. there's nothing difficult about it, expect sometimes keeping 
up with the long sentences. 



Erik: good writers say the limits of the form made them better writers. Smile.
And, even so far, I think THIS is probably the smartest insight for reading it 
yet said. Compared to Pynchon's arcane sidling into
themes (I have been so lost in some Pynchon works until...)---neither is prima 
facie better or worse----
I can see how Gaddis DOES serve it all up....
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