Small Allusions: "overly literary"?

[Mark Kohut]

Remember when we talked about 'the look',
merging with the discussion of The Male Gaze and Franzen's
too-cute (to me) reification of The Gaze in Purity and I
said that Sartre's concept of 'the look' is a famous section
of *BEING AND NOTHINGNESS, *which is

name-checked in *The Small Rain.* SL, p36.

Waddya think of THAT, eh doubters?
Is this a work cited as parody or as homage?
Along with *Form and Value in Modern Poetry* a
book I still have and is by one of the best critics
of his age but here is the only Amazon review of it:
"Extremely attentive to, and discerning about, the small details and
subtleties of poetry. Prose style over-fancy and at times incomprehensible.
In retrospect, I'm surprised and taken aback that my sophomore English
teacher assigned such a semi-comprehensible book."

Of course, 'small' should be eliminated here but I like the rain resonances
and the word ''semi-comprehensible", (which sure as hell has also been
applied to *Being and Nothingness--*would be high praise from some*)* so IF
Pynchon read it, he'd have liked it but here in *The Small Rain*, where the
group intellectual reads it, is it a jab at bookishness, the academy vs.
life?
(maybe Pynchon had it in the navy and HE was seen as the shipboard
intellectual
is quite likely, no?)
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