The WreckIgnitions Read. Representing Art

[Mark Kohut]

Erik: 
also musical tension, the building up, holding, and release; the repetition of 
themes, the digressions and return. his books are very much "composed" (esp. J 
R, where composition is a theme, as well as music).

yeah...since i have a tin-like ear, musical analogies are like silence to 
me................

But I joke and I like....he isn't, is he, as lyrical as Pynchon can be.....
but he is a hell of a lot more fugue-like?   




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From: Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; pov at ix.netcom.com
Sent: Fri, April 8, 2011 1:54:16 PM
Subject: Re: The WreckIgnitions Read. Representing Art

>Gaddis explores this 'tension' like the tension in a massive cathedral that
>holds the arches together, so to spead?
 
as the kids these days say: this.
 
(boy the bridle has to be tight here).
 
also musical tension, the building up, holding, and release; the repetition of 
themes, the digressions and return. his books are very much "composed" (esp. J 
R, where composition is a theme, as well as music).


On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

another way of framing a conversation (perhaps):
>
>Pound said (of Art) : Make it new. (He was, of course, new when he did)
>
>From maybe the Greeks is the tradition: Art must just recognize reality right.
>(Plato's shadows
>as images...) Newness has nothing to do with it?
>
>Gaddis explores this 'tension' like the tension in a massive cathedral that
>holds the arches together, so to spead?
>
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