(np) Man Who was Sunday thread?

[Mark Kohut]

I recently read this Chesterton, Shaw exhange....

Chesterton met Shaw, tall and rail thin and said, "Looking at you, one would 
think there is famine in England"

Shaw retorted: "looking at you, one would think you caused it"....

That Shaw........


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, March 22, 2011 2:38:06 AM
Subject: (np) Man Who was Sunday thread?

while we are waiting and debating and so forth on the Recognitions,
might be fun to start a little thread on the Man Who Was Sunday


I read this a few years ago but skimmed it, so I'd be hard pressed to
give any kind of synopsis

It does seem like it bears on the issue of anarchism and perhaps some
of the traditional Catholic lens through which Pynchon may have viewed
some of his political themes, especially early on - or, more
pertinently, through which he may have expected many of his readers to
be viewing them, and thus wrote with these ideas in mind...


- Famous Catholic convert
- had to shop at Big and Tall men's stores

- according to American anarchist poet Kenneth Rexroth, Chesterton
hired him (Rexroth) as his guide when visiting Chicago

- I must admit feeling a certain amount of annoyance when I realized
there wasn't going to be a conventional spy story
- however, it did pass rather quickly (somewhat like the annoyance of
realizing the lack of a straightforward action in Crying of Lot 49)



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