(np) once you get past Jackie Gleason barfing...

[Paul Mackin]

On 1/21/2012 10:17 AM, Technopaegnion Tapinosis wrote:
>
> The author was so compared with his slow learning and slow to publish 
> betters before this work. It is the best of his and far better than 
> anything his betters have published thus far. The Street in that first 
> chapter of Underworld is no Pynchonian abstraction, no Cabinets of 
> Caligari's nnightmares twisted on stages for set pieced clever 
> parodies and shaggy pigs, but resounds with the laughter and barking, 
> the lads gamboling, the Upper Town to the Bronx vibrations. 

It's available on Kindle, which makes a reread tempting.

The original, sitting approximately two feet from my left hand, is too 
heavy to any longer lift.

P