Gatsby

[Keith Davis]

Warlock is good.


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> On Jan 19, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/classics/warlock/
> 
> 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
>> 
>> 
>>> 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...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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>>>> —
>>>> James J. Robertson
>>>> @jamesjrobertson
>>>> james at themutedposthorn.com
>>>> themutedposthorn.com
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