Fitzgerald's TN

[Keith Davis]

The letter from Max Perkins is very revealing. Thank you. It brought to
mind Alice's suggestion of a way to judge the quality of writing. "The
amount of meaning you get into a sentence...."

I haven't read Gatsby for many years, and will have to add that to the list.

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm feeling tender toward a reading myself. Thanks, motivators, you know
> who you are.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Oct 4, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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