Fwd: M&D Deep Duck 4-6: Equator

[Mark Kohut]

p. 38. "so as not to be the first to foul his britches in front of the
others"...


Misc.
There was a climate of opinion about war novels out of WW1 that labeled
the most realistic of them The Lavatory School and was very agin' them.
Too too much on bowel movements and vomit and shit like that.
Led by some important English critics and editors who were on the wrong side
of literary history.......


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:01 AM
Subject: Re: M&D Deep Duck 4-6: Equator
To: Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>


Probably not, too common to pin down to THAT but........
the phrase expressed a theme of P's times....
There was a good novel about the sixties called
EVERYONE KNOWS AND NOBODY CARES and

i have recently seen how scholars have found bits
of phrases, similar words and usages, sea-changed metaphors
in Shakespeare----where Florio's Montaigne and Ovid
and Plutarch and more were all imbibed by Shakespeare
and reworked by his genius.

We all know that
Writers of genius suck in from everywhere, books and songs
and movies as well as from their unmediated life and it
comes out in ways we can hardly see.



On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> "Everybody knows that the captain lied "
>
> Am 23.01.2015 um 13:43 schrieb Mark Kohut:
>>
>> p. 31. Ethelmer sez "'Ev'ryone 'knows'".....and whenever I hear that
>> line I think of the Leonard Cohen song:
>
>
> No, I don't think it is a Cohen reference.
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