Fitzgerald's TN
Keith Davis
kbob42 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 08:27:14 CDT 2012
That settles it. When I finish Blood Meridian, and complete the course of
anti-depressants, TN is next.
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:07 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com>wrote:
> so, though I've read Fitz more times than I care to admit, and Gatsby
> more times than almost any other book, I was prompted to open TN and
> take a close reading look into how it is constructed. More on this
> later...but the names, a Mr Flesh, a couple of Neverquivers, Diver,
> and names that read like advetisments, an characters who comment on
> the jingles of names. So, nothing wrong with stupid names. Shakespeare
> was not afraid of them. Pynchon only pushes them to new lows, as in
> low puns, a comic tradition.
>
> The faces; the sculpted bodies and faces are also there, not as in
> Hemingway or Faulkner.
>
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