No novels from Roth anymore

[Bled Welder]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI0WOev3og8

You strange smithereens.  Be with me.  Become with us.  This is why we're
here, you crazy humanoids.

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:28 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> The point is obvious enough and much discussed by the Roth critical
> industry. Roth has been involved in an interplay between autobiography
> anf fiction for some time, if not from the start of his writing
> career. Those familiar with his essays and works of fiction must take
> delight in what seems a capstone to remarkable career.
>
> http://derekroyal.com/Operation%20Shylock.pdf
>
>
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> On 11/12/12, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> >  I don't understand what you mean here.  Could you elaborate?
> >
> >
> > Roth has been moving in this direction for some
> > time. And, it is certainly a positive; even the fanatic cannot deny
> > this.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> > To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Sent: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 11:47 am
> > Subject: Re: No novels from Roth anymore
> >
> >
> > Mark sez,
> >> Shakespeare also wrote Two Gentleman of Verona.
> >
> > The analogy fails to reason because Roth is in his late days, as is
> > Pynchon, but Shakespeare's play dates from his earlies days as
> > playwright, hence the  relative immaturities and crudities in
> > structure and poetry. Roth has been moving in this direction for some
> > time. And, it is certainly a positive; even the fanatic cannot deny
> > this. But Pynchon's last is not. The shame is that Pynchon may go out
> > with a wimpering puff of dope when he might go out with a bang by
> > doinng something novel.
> >
> >
> >
>
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