TRTR Wreckingnitions Crew comes back

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/21/2011 8:48 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Premise
> So, do we agree that almost all the remarks made about art or Art by
> the minor more sick crew in TR is satiric, to score off them, people like them?

yeah, a lot of them are pretentious snobs about all their laboriously 
acquired European culture.  The fifties had a lot of that.  Serious 
music, art, psychoanalysis.  Forgive me, Gaddis admirers, but I sometime 
feel it's not just the characters that display this trait but the author 
himself.  True, literate reader DO enjoy seeing and recognizing all 
those famous lines of poetry and philosophical and theological 
treatises, but doesn't it tend to detract a little of what a novel 
should do. Of course that's the question, what SHOULD  a novel do.  To 
quote a famous GR line, anything you want it to do.
>
> But not (necessarily) when Wyatt, Basil Valentine and say Recktall, philistine
> manipulative businessman talk about it, correct? .....[doing business is being
> in touch with reality and
> "some say it is only through being evil that one touches reality....AND business
> could live so powerfully independent

the prisons of the country are filled with authentic people. Also the 
boardrooms.
> of every other faculty of the human intelligence]. Strong words.
>
> Now hold that thought and add the discusssion on p238 ff about 'projective
> art'....."increased powers of eyesight"    
>
> and that 'another blue day' ....."because the blue, it doesn't quite,....it
> isn't"....
>
> What's that all about?
>