That watershed period, 100 years ago

[Allan Balliett]

Oh my god, you have an iPad?

Allan in WV where are fires are currently restricted to structures,
historical or not

On Sunday, August 9, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Saul Bellow in a 74-75 piece, collected in THERE IS SIMPLY TOO MUCH TO
> THINK ABOUT, writes about the Great Noise as perhaps the major distraction
> for writers. ( quotes Wordsworth on it from 200 years ago and then sez, "
> in a phrase from my youth --he hadn't seen the half of
> It")
> Then sez: " in short, the sounds of the public sphere, the din of
> politics, the turbulence and agitation that set in about 1914 and have now
> reached an intolerable volume."
> Around when Virginia Wolf said " human nature changed" .....
> Around when the Great War killed much Western optimism ( see Wells as
> exemplar)
> Maybe around when Pynchon had Against the Day change dramatically ( a
> simplistic observation I know)
>
> I think it was the terrif Pynchon appreciator Tony Tanner who started an
> essay on Augie March by seeing Chicago as the city of the 1893 Fair, THE
> American city because Crystal Palace, White City, optimism.
>
> Sent from my iPad-
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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