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

[Richard Ryan]

Ah - nice chestnut!   Harold Sand in the "The Subterraneans".....

http://www.williamgaddis.org/infiction/index.shtml

Called Sand because his wit was so dry?



On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:51 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>        * A Temple of Texts
>>  William H. Gass- 2010 - 432 pages - Google eBook - Preview
>>
>> 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. ...
>>  books.google.com - More editions- Add to My Library▼-  In My Library: Change▼
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