Gatsby

[James Robertson]

“Sometimes at college we also succeeded in getting on the same literary
wavelength. We showed up once at a party, not a masquerade party, in
disguise--he as Hemingway, I as Scott Fitzgerald, each of us aware that the
other had been through a phase of enthusiasm for his respective author. I
suppose by then I was learning from Farina how to be amused at some of my
obsessions. Also in '59 we simultaneously picked up on what I still think
is among the finest of American novels, Warlock, by Oakley Hall. We set
about getting others to read it too, and for a while had a micro-cult
going. Soon a number of us were talking in Warlock dialogue, a kind of
thoughtful, stylized, Victorian Wild West diction. This may have appealed
to Farina partly as another method of maintaining Cool.”
—T. P. intro to Been Down ...

—
James J. Robertson
@jamesjrobertson
james at themutedposthorn.com
themutedposthorn.com <http://www.themutedposthorn.com>


On 20 January 2015 at 14:57, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> ... to the point where they'd tool around the Cornell campus (?)
> dressed as 'em, even, or so it sez ...
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:14 PM, James Robertson
> <james at themutedposthorn.com> wrote:
> > P was a huge fan of FSF as was Farina a huge Hemingway fan, acc. to
> intro to
> > Been Down ...
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, January 20, 2015, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Gatsby doesn't make good film material because Mr. Gatsby is not very
> >> interesting on film or on stage, or even, in the book.  He is
> >> beautiful in how the narrator makes him and all that floats in his
> >> wake. Fitzgerald has a wonder stick, a magical way with words, with
> >> light and with shades and with color. The book is a period novella but
> >> for the prose, those brilliant flashes, those shutters, the light
> >> through the girders.  But it is Pynchon in its deeper themes about all
> >> those westerners come east from hardware money to software money, from
> >> the tangible to the intangible exchanges.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Dave Monroe <
> against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Congratulations!  Now you can watch all four movie adaptations (though
> >> > the 1st is a lost film, so you can' only watch the trailer). Five if
> >> > you count G (2002).  Then there's the teevee one ...
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >> I've just this minute finished reading Gatsby for the first time...
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Www.innergroovemusic.com
> >> >> -
> >> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >> > -
> >> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >> -
> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > —
> > James J. Robertson
> > @jamesjrobertson
> > james at themutedposthorn.com
> > themutedposthorn.com
> >
> >
>
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