Recognizing The Recognitions

[Richard Ryan]

Dude - incredibly good, granular background material. Nicely done!  We now
all have a serious splash-down target zone...

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *
>>> *
>>> <http://www.williamgaddis.org/mooregaddisbk/index.shtml>* *
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Richard Ryan
>>>> New York and the World
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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