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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