Recognizing The Recognitions

[Mark Kohut]

I di'nt know all this shit.....GREAT!





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From: Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
To: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>; David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>; 
Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, March 22, 2011 7:08:55 PM
Subject: Re: Recognizing The Recognitions

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 Recognitionsand a chilling book for 
book reviewers everywhere, is also available free online 
at: http://www.nyx.net/~awestrop/ftb/ftb.htm

The Recognitions of Clementis 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 Reviewinterview 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





 


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...
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>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).
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>> 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
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>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:16 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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