Did TRP take on this printed dare? In effect....

[Erik T. Burns]

He's talking about Wm. Gaddis and _The Recognitions_, but even there the timing is off ... That's from 1955.


On Jan 16, 2011, at 0:39, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> it's a chymical conspiracy thru time, TRP and TLP, dextro- and levo- rotary?
> 
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> So, i find in a thrift store today this paperback of The English Novel by Walter
>> Allen,
>> orig 1954, 60s, in paperback in America, which I once had and read intoto
>> learning of writers
>> 
>> I wanted to read, how to and why.
>> 
>> And, I see Thomas Love Peacock, whom I have never read and who many say
>> has influenced TRP. Sublime comic satirist, Allen sez----thru characters
>> embodying ideas carried to their
>>  logical absurdity...THEN I read this:
>> 
>> FOR ANYTHING COMPARABLE IN OUR TIME WE WOULD NEED TO IMAGINE
>> A NOVELIST INTELLECTUALLY POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SATIRIZE IN ONE
>> BOOK THE EXPONENTS OF, SAY, MARXISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS, THE PSYCHOLOGY
>> OF JUNG, LOGICAL POSITIVISM, NEO-CATHOLICISM, EXISTENTIALISM, CHRISTIAN
>> SCIENCE, ABSTRACT PAINTING. ...!!!
>> 
>> Sound like any writer you have read---in our time??
>> 
>> Sometimes, I can't believe what I read. If Pynchon never read this, and why
>> would he even
>> 
>> have bothered given his voracious plunge into original sources,
>>  this is surely a Borges-like time-travel comment, at least, yes?
>> 
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