NP but an influence, Henry Adams

[alice wellintown]

And, as Eliot never did wear a newspaper hat, and as Pound, and as
Shylock, and as...are there any who didn't make of the Jews and
anti-race against the Christian one to heaven? I wonder how Wolfshiem
will be played in the new Gatsby...a rat with a nose you could stand
under in the rain, wrap the nose hairs about your shoulders to keep
warm...a man who wears human molars as cufflinks...and fixes baseball
games and deals in forged debentures...ah, the quality of mercy is not
found in fiction. the wells are not potable...the killers of
christ...converted even are profance bennys.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:52 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just wanted to say, he said. Ireland, they say, has the honour of
> being the only country which never persecuted the jews. Do you know
> that? No. And do you know why?
>  He frowned sternly on the bright air.
>  — Why, sir? Stephen asked, beginning to smile.
>  — Because she never let them in, Mr Deasy said solemnly.
>  A coughball of laughter leaped from his throat dragging after it a
> rattling chain of phlegm. He turned back quickly, coughing, laughing,
> his lifted arms waving to the air.
>  — She never let them in, he cried again through his laughter as he
> stamped on gaitered feet over the gravel of the path. That’s why.
>  On his wise shoulders through the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung
> spangles, dancing coins.
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I was led to ask because a quick look at ole cranky Henry in
>> those HUGE Gale Publisher Lit Crit compendia that all good libraries
>> have, had some say that Henry's cranky yankee anti-semitism had
>> diminished his canonicity since his heyday.............
>>
>> Hey, day-lit.....
>>
>> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 6:59 PM
>> Subject: Re: NP but an influence, Henry Adams
>>
>>> 1) Did Henry Adams' influence more writers back in the day--60s-- than
>>> lately?
>>
>> Well, if I take the cranky position, I would guess that Adams was read
>> by a select few and read deeper. Today, Adams is a best seller, a top
>> read, a modern library classic must read, number one on the list of
>> non-fiction, and, and, and, non-fiction is all the rage now, as
>> fiction fades away, and deeper readings of more chllanging texts
>> replace the cannon of spoon-fed young adult literature. I would say
>> that Adams, like Mumford, like Freud, like Sontag,  like so
>> many...because he had his finger on the pulse, on the zeitgeist, that
>> beat of a  moment moving magically under memory's mumbling insistance
>> in the moment when it ceased to matter much, will end up a footnote
>> from which we may find an allusion to Pynchon.
>>
>>