Gatsby

[Becky Lindroos]

Yes Warlock is excellent - I’d really like to reread that.

Bekah 


> On Jan 19, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Warlock is good.
> 
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>> On Jan 19, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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