Gaddis and the silly rabbit

[Richard Melo]

One of my favorite lines of dialogue comes up in Chapter 1 of The
Recognitions. Like Pynchon, Gaddis puts some of his funniest material in the
opening pages.

The line: "You're the by-Goddest rabbit I ever damn saw!" [21, Harvest
paperback]

It's the build up that makes it hysterical, and it's so appropriate to young
Wyatt's (and the novel's) relationship with artifice and convention.

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Richard Melo
Portland, Oregon
http://misconstrue.net
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