Kathyrn Hume on Late Coover

[Paul Mackin]

On 9/11/2012 7:24 PM, Prashant Kumar wrote:
> wallace-l, anyone? That place scares me sometimes.

I hadn't look in on it since the death, or a long time before actually, 
but do love scary.

Old timers here will remember that the w-list arguably was a spinoff of 
the p-list.  Several of us got really enthused over Infinite Jest and 
there was a lot of discussion on this list before a new one could be up 
and going. Our Will Layman might have helped start the w-list.  Don't 
remember.  But anyway, what was scary? Curious.

P
>
> On 12 September 2012 00:38, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net 
> <mailto:mackin.paul at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 9/11/2012 2:27 AM, jochen stremmel wrote:
>
>         Great, Michael!
>
>         You demonstrated what the plist is for, in my humble opinion.
>
>         More such larks, please.
>
>
>     Any discussion here  of TP's actual writing makes me shudder with
>     pleasure.
>
>     I don't care a fig what he THINKS, or BELIEVES, or what books he
>     likes.
>
>
>     P
>
>
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>         2012/9/11 Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
>         <mailto:michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>>:
>
>                 how we do go on!  "such larks"
>
>
>
>             but i mean, the ripples from the skipping stone...
>
>             plink
>             Brecht
>
>             plonk
>             the Marseillaise
>
>             plunk
>             the Marquis de Sod
>
>             these are brought in lightly, painlessly, humorously but
>             the literal
>             "grounding" of the social movement, like parents grounding
>             a child, but also
>             'going to ground' like a fox on the run, which is sort of
>             what zoyd is
>             doing, which again is a further development of what the
>             marquis did in
>             leaving dramaturgy for lawn service - going to ground -
>             looking for cover,
>             for a liveable rhizome
>
>             a-and the imposition of the sadistic domination on the
>             grass, in his ads (in
>             full costume, whipping the grass, and the grass saying "we
>             love eet") -
>             parallels the apparent mass approbation depicted around
>             the Reagan
>             Administration, eg
>
>             and he pulls in even the marseillaise,  like the original
>             California
>             landscape so heedlessly sodded over, in this celebration
>             of dominion over
>             nature
>
>             but that isn't even half of what's in the passage!
>
>
>
>             --
>             “It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die
>             miserably every
>             day/for lack/of what is found there” - William Carlos Williams
>
>
>

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