Honesty in TR?

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon May 30 03:43:41 CDT 2011


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkM7uWBjUrI

honestly, it does sound like a pretty horrible party...not sure what
one would say...
better to stay home and wake up to a nice bowl of oatmeal in the morning

Mark Kohut wrote:
> Someone tweets: "Oatmeal is the most honestly named food. And scrapple."
>
> And I am off --thinking of the oatmeal motif in The Recognitions and the
> evisceration
> of advertising and its lies and all the characters' dishonest words and I ask:
>
> Is oatmeal in TR as a kind of example of honesty?
>
> And is this the thread to ask: What do we think Gaddis thinks MIGHT BE said
> without
> being one of his satiric targets?...(I've been to some parties
> and.......yes......
>
> I do not know what I would/could say that would spare me Gaddis' scorn. What
> think you?)
>



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