Misc.

[alice wellintown]

> I caught up with a recent Friday NYT, reading luxuriously all the new movie reviews, all the long art show pieces, etc. > Lotsa good words on the Rauschenberg exhibit and other pop art from the time.Rauschenberg
> Drawing cartoon panels as his breakthrough around 1962ff. Warhol, others.
> And I asked myself to ask the plisters why P appearing around then, faulted by many for his cartoon characters isn't ' talked about much as part of the same Zeitgeist. >
> Those artists gave us ourselves back as cartoons---and we think they were right on.

And they were, back then. And so was P when he stencilized Henry Adams
in V.. And when we put Slothrop in 1973, where he belongs, we see how
right on P was, then.

But even back then there were those who were not quite sure if this
new American novel was more than a self-mocking, hysterical
reflection, of the postmodern self, that the exhaustion would and
perhaps should, after being so wasted, find its way back home. And not
all of these contrarian voices were stodgy critics or wannabe
novelists with a Wood ax to grind, not all of them were in love with
Henry James, not all of them were journalists writing fiction or
disgruntled politicians who lost their star-ship when Kennedy and
Camelot got shot.

And, is it any wonder that readers nostalgically grasp for an old
Bellows full of angry wind?