NP but a Gassian thunderclap...the verbal snapsot is all for me right now....

[rich]

one should mention that for a time some thought William Gaddis was
Thomas Pynchon. Gass mentions it in his intro to Penguin's edition of
TR.
Gaddis believe it or not ran in the beat circle--he knew Keraouc,
Ginsberg, and Burroughs and the rest. one of keraouc;s novels has a
character based on Gaddis.
He was an orphan and absent fathers (beyond the religious weight that
brings) is a major theme in his work

one of these days a trip to sag harbor to his grave

rich

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> William Gaddis's The Recognitions It sometimes happens in a writing life that
> you get lucky, and I have been lucky often. ... The Recognitions was a
> thunderclap. It was a dull decade, the fifties, but here was a real sound. ...
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