The WreckIgnitions Read. Stray strugglingly playful thoughts

[Erik T. Burns]

and having fun and laughing.
as for restrictions, well, I am also a big fan of the Oulipo. but more in
theory than in the practice, I'm sorry to say. (with a big exception for
Harry Mathews, whose execution is excellent.)




On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  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?
>
>  ------------------------------
> *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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