Gaddis and the silly rabbit

[Erik T. Burns]

not to mention the eternal question of the fussy bluenose Aunt as mother
replacement (the unholy dispirit vs the holy spirit)

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Richard Melo <richard.melo at gmail.com>wrote:

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