Misc.Appetizer, to invigorate posters into reacting, kinda like chum....

[Erik T. Burns]

i like Updike though; he's like one of those guests at a Gaddis
cocktail party, literate and interminable -- or maybe a beefed up Mr
Pivner.



On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> yeah,,,,,that might be my first enemy-making charge: his fiction is
> sometimes nicely embroidered non-fiction
> and stand-up comic set pieces..........
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> Except that I think his famous essay on a late Updike novel, reprinted
> often, is ...........simply wrong.
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> And, he is more like Updike, sea-changed, than he ever would admit...
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> "Yu think I diss Updike, you shoudda heard Wallace"----Franzen on book
> tour..........
> From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 2:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Misc.Appetizer, to invigorate posters into reacting, kinda like
> chum....
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> Haven't tried DFW's fiction yet. His essays are quite wonderful.  I've been
> avoiding the fiction out of fear that the numerous dissenters are right, but
> ultimately one must decide for oneself, no?
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> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> before I start posting on TR, Pt2, C2.....
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> Have been reading Infinite Jest.  He ain't no Pynchon.
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> And I'd rather reread Gaddis; infinitely deeper (and depth matters) ; and
> read many other less proclaimed writers.
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> I mean.....some set pieces of non-infinite pleasure and insight.....into
> depression, say,
> (but done better by Styron).......and a few other things....................
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> Refute me flamingly.............
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> Richard Ryan
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> unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself. All progress
> depends on the unreasonable man." - Shaw
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