Airship of Fools

[Bekah]

I wasn't impressed with Charlotte Simmons -  seems to me Wolfe went downhill after Bonfire of the Vanities,  but ... 

Bek

On Mar 8, 2012, at 5:38 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> haven't read Charlotte Simmons but I do have a copy -- worth a read?
> 
> positive spin on the development in some books --
> a) V. - Paola's prayers and devout carrying of the Miraculous Medal
> bring about a change of heart in Pappy Hod.  Profane and others in the
> book to greater or lesser degree are ennobled by the Eternal Feminine
> b) GR - a simple tale of Orpheus losing and regaining his Harp
> c) CoL49 - Oedipa becomes a stamp collector
> 
> 
> minor rant: come back to the raft Huck darling -- bugs me, the notion
> that the action points that way.  I don't think it does.  Not that
> there's anything wrong with that...
> 
> subtonic rant: so the Obama white house is all "there's no legitimate
> medical use for marijuana"
> I felt strongly enough to register my dismay at whitehouse.gov
> 
> diminished rant: how old is Huck supposed to be anyway?  I got this
> book out of the library called something like Mark Twain's complaint
> or something, all essays ragging on him.  guess they figured with his
> talent he could have brought old Huck into some kind of desirable
> settlement -- not just criticizing but finding a modus vivendi (or
> Vivaldi)
> 
> augmented rant: african-american jim and huck and the duke and the
> dolphin and tom sawyer could have opened a medical marijuana
> dispensary in a free state, luring Becky Thatcher and other
> intelligent women to live with them, maybe even started a prairie
> branch of the chums of chance, flying (high) towards grace paley