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

[Erik T. Burns]

Or maybe he had True Grit?

On Mar 25, 2011, at 21:16, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:

> Ah - nice chestnut!   Harold Sand in the "The Subterraneans".....
> 
> http://www.williamgaddis.org/infiction/index.shtml
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> Called Sand because his wit was so dry?
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> 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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