Recognizing The Recognitions

[Erik T. Burns]

and just in case you need more connective tissue linking WG and TRP,
according to the WUSTL documentation, William Gaddis was the writer for a
film produced by Hunter Low for the US Army in 1965, called "The Battle of
St Vith."
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00420.html

The Battle of St Vith was the first engagement of the Battle of the *fucking
*Bulge: http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/7-8/7-8_17.htm

also: "the chaplains out in the Bulge are manly, haggard, hard drinkers"
 (Gravity's Rainbow p135)

and of course because of the miracle of the internet, you can watch the
movie here:
Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tdy_O81rLw
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JozuB1NFtg
<http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00420.html>

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> o-oh and I forgot the Finding-Aid for the William Gaddis Papers at
> Washington University, St Louis:
> http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00049.html
>
>
> I just found this gem, which is all kinds of On-Topic for the Pynchon-l:
>
> *From Donadio, Candida to Gaddis, William , 1963: March 05  **sent from
> NYC; concerns tarot card reading*
>
> (Steven Moore is editing a collection of WG's correspondence to be
> published by the Dalkey Archive).
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> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There's not much reason to spend time googling Gaddis' references: the
>> collaborative annotations at williamgaddis.org have that well in hand,
>> though of course always open to suggestions & improvements.
>>
>> the annotations site also has the *ne plus ultra* of Gaddis experts,
>> Steven Moore, contributing regularly (also to the Gaddis List), and his
>> fantastic book *William Gaddis (*1989*) *is available online and for free
>> as some kind of remarkable public benefit:
>> http://www.williamgaddis.org/mooregaddisbk/index.shtml
>>
>> The complete text of Jack Green's *Fire the Bastards!*, a deliciously
>> virulent and eccentric lambasting of the critics of *The Recognitions*and a chilling book for book reviewers everywhere, is also available free
>> online at: http://www.nyx.net/~awestrop/ftb/ftb.htm
>>
>> *The Recognitions of Clement* is also online, along with all sorts of
>> paleochristian texts the sorts of which the Rev Gwyon is so deeply steeped
>> in: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.vi.iii.i.html
>>
>> Finally, there's a *Paris Review* interview with William Gaddis from
>> 1986:
>> http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2577/the-art-of-fiction-no-101-william-gaddis --
>> "What’s any artist but the dregs of his work: I gave that line to Wyatt
>> thirty-odd years ago and as far as I’m concerned it’s still valid."
>>
>> a resource pony I would find wonderful: a collection of the artworks
>> mentioned in Gaddis, including the solids in Uccello ;-)
>> http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2008/03/the-solids-in-u.html
>>
>> etb
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>> <http://www.williamgaddis.org/mooregaddisbk/index.shtml>* *
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>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>wrote:
>>
>>> These prognoses of cognitive dissonance and  labyrinthine interpretive
>>> descent make the effort sound....even more appealing...
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:18 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Group reads almost never work, but that doesn't stop P-listers from
>>> > continuing to bang their heads against their keyboards.  _The
>>> > Recognitions_ will probably be really impossible, because (and I'm
>>> > barely acquainted w/ it) it isn't Pynchon (who writes things begging
>>> > to be Googled).
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> foax: schooling is for fish.
>>> >> I'm not sure a group read of _The Recognitions_ is going to work, here
>>> or anywhere.
>>> >> The book is very long and kind of takes over your life if you let it.
>>> (_J R_ too...)
>>> >> That said, there's plenty to talk about. etb
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:16 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Richard Ryan
>>> New York and the World
>>> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
>>> Come see VTM's new production!
>>> www.kingstheplay.com
>>>
>>
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