NP. The "Artful" thread OR "Every morning, some new, crazy shit."

Thu Dec 1 08:57:57 CST 2016

Yes -  To the Lighthouse is a wonderment.  It’s one of those books which can be read several times getting more out of it each time.  And it’s not that long!  The story of a woman and her family just before and during WWI.  

A Room of One's Own is also good but it’s a long essay about the importance of personal space in a woman author’s life - about a woman’s need for some independence (if I remember correctly).  

Mrs Dalloway is also very good - some stream of consciousness - similar in some ways to Ulysses which had been published only a few years prior and Woolf had read but …  

The only other book I’ve read by Woolf is Night and Day which I didn’t care for.  It’s  very, very slow with details piled on details because Woolf was trying to get every inner nuance of her protagonist’s behavior - similar in ways to the later works of Henry James, I think,  but with more emphasis on the emotional or inner life.  Every thought or half-thought is described so it takes her a whole chapter to answer the door.   Omg,  some kind of realism to the max.   

Becky 

> On Dec 1, 2016, at 5:17 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Speaking of female novelists---which is a ridiculous segue very akin to the crazy segue way Charles Portis
> sees Americans acting and talking in this absurd country for any logic, one of Roth's key themes [see 1963 essay]  & a new reading discovery (this is another 
> faux Portis tic) --first time with odds for the recent Nobel, I learned, despite a small near-perfect output and a writer recommended to me years ago by a Plister which I finally acted on although I still do not know why I was gifted with
> the recommendation because I could see no connection in the kind verbal act, but I guess that is a Portis-
> like connection too---Virginia Woolf really had it together at her deepest and widest level in To The Lighthouse, which
> in the above spirit I suggest all Plisters 'should' read but there are no 'shoulds' really, the stream of fiction is
> so wide only Harold Bloom can speed swim through it. 
> 
> Anyway, to tie up this pretentious post over wake-up coffee--pretention an ongoing theme
> which might not be circumvented by meta-preemptive awareness of it, that meta that DFW so hated,
> I suggest that the movement of the words between commas and the number of them in this post is another homage---this time
> to Ms. Woolf, suffering genius, although it is surely a Crying Wolf homage. 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Second Last Samurai about as I hard as I can second. She's brilliant, book is great and singular, all Plisters should read. 
> 
> On Nov 29, 2016, at 6:02 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> And now I've started reading Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai, and I love it so far.  I only read 40 pages last night, but I can't wait to get home and get into again.  Here's a review from when it was initially published in 2001, on her site:
>> 
>> http://www.helendewitt.com/dewitt/review01.html
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>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My library of yet unread books just grew by three...thanks a lot, I think!
>> 
>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
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>> > On Nov 28, 2016, at 10:17 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> > Not I -  but thank you for the recommendation -  it’s now on my wish list.   :-)
>> >
>> > And to whomever mentioned The Quincunx by Charles Palliser I’ll second (or third) it.
>> >
>> > Bekah/Becky
>> > back in California and on the list!   :-)
>> >
>> >> On Nov 28, 2016, at 6:39 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the recommendation.
>> >>
>> >> I recently finished another book that someone recommended here - can't remember who - Bekah?
>> >>
>> >> A Naked Singularity, by Sergio De La Pava. A brilliant deconstruction of the criminal justice system, and well worth the read, though I do think the book would have been stronger if he'd had an editor to work with (he self-published). Some of the tangents he goes off on start to cloy. Did the recommender say it was Pynchon-esque? There is a Whole Sick Crew-like group of roommates, but it seems to be more inspired by Junot Diaz, Cortazar, etc. - with a little Dostoyevsky thrown in, for good measure.
>> >>
>> >> Laura
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Robert Mahnke
>> >> Sent: Nov 28, 2016 5:59 PM
>> >> To: P-list
>> >> Subject: Artful (NP)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I've just read Ali Smith's Artful, and recommend it, fwiw.  It's remarkable, and unlike anything else I can think of.
>> >> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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>> > Becky
>> > https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
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>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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Becky
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