Gatsby

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:00 PM, James Robertson
<james at themutedposthorn.com> wrote:
> “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
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> 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
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>> > James J. Robertson
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