Recog ch 2 last word is "alchemy" in that chapter

[Erik T. Burns]

i agree about Network. Great film.
Also always thought Robert Altman (RIP) would have been able to handle the
layered voices.


On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> seconded in clarification (although I can't yet second the Stanley ob
> without
> committing fraud)
>
>
>
> but they don't really. Many of them are frauds but not all of them,
> Stanley being the most obvious example in TR (its no coincidence that
> he ends the book I think). Moreover, the frauds by their very words
> though they are speaking "fraudulently" by their their very act of
> speaking and our reading thereof are speaking the truth of some kind
> which is what true art is about I suppose
>
> rich
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Alice writes: in Gaddis, this sense that
> > communication is nerves in patterns on a screen impossible to mean;
> > the women do not so much come and go, but the words do, words that
> > refuse to say what the mean or what one needs to here to make meaning.
> >
> > I might argue: Gaddis' words mean what they say, but his characters
> don't.
> > They mostly speak fraudulently................
> >
> > Who and when not?
> >
> >
>
>
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