misc. thematic asides re BE

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 10 12:52:09 CST 2013


"It seems to me that America is entering a period of decline, which is starting to become
apparent. America has never been so rich and it has also never been so empty."
                                                  ----Wm. Vollman, interview [How to Read a Novelist] 2000
 
Remark made around the beginning (in historic time) of BLEEDING EDGE......this, as well as
reader comparisons to Pynchon ["his sprung diction recalls Pynchon's"--J. Freeman] as well
as being a fellow Cornell grad makes me wonder again if Pynchon and he are any kind of 
friends, pen pals? 
 
 
Shit, Money and the Devil: 
"the reek of the urine, the shit, and the blood of Luther".....so manifest throughout [Mailer's] THE CASTLE 
IN THE FOREST. "---J. Freeman in How to Read a Novelist 
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