An Interview with Terry Eagleton

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/8/2012 5:23 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> On 6/8/2012 3:11 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:
>> Is Gone Girl as good as its exceedingly good reviews?
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> It's very good.
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> P
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 9:15 am
>> Subject: Re: An Interview with Terry Eagleton
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>> On 6/8/2012 4:16 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>> You've made me order Eagleton's book. just sayin'.
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>> Hope you won't be disappointed--I want to return to it and see what 
>> he's up to.  Soon as I finish Gone Girl and Wichita.
>>
>> P
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>>> *From:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>>> *To:* pynchon-l at waste.org
>>> *Sent:* Friday, June 8, 2012 7:11 AM
>>> *Subject:* Re: An Interview with Terry Eagleton
>>>
>>> On 6/7/2012 5:29 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
>>> > Now, isn't this connected with that purple passage we were looking
>>> > into? The one that Yeats seems to have influenced about knower and
>>> > known? Dancer and dance?
>>> >
>>> Oh, the red-blue coloration.
>>>
>>> With Pynchon the manner of telling is what is told. The light 
>>> generated is in the heat.
>>>
>>> He doesn't get paid by the word or anything--like Dickens--he does 
>>> it for free.
>>>
>>> I don't know more to tell right at the moment--not much of a dancer 
>>> this A.M.
>>>
>>> Carry on.
>>>
>>> P


I ordered this novel and also just released Wichita at the same time.  
Started Wichita first but it seemed a little slow paced for my mood so I 
turned to Gone Girl. Wow, this author can move fast. Both books have a 
Middle West setting--Missouri and Kansas, respectively--but the central 
characters are displaced Manhattanites returning home. And the Heartland 
isn't exactly what East Coasters might expect, or West Coasters either.  
(not sure that last has as much meaning for Gone Girl as for Wichita but 
some)

P
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