BtZ42 Pynchon & John Hawkes

[Mark Kohut]

Because of Professor Krafft, I am finally, after having him
in mind to read all my life, reading me some John Hawkes.

After he sourced that fox bit in The Cannibal---which definitely
should be in Weisenburger or on the wiki, I'm sure---The Lime Twig
was recommended.

I could and maybe will quote from it (and The Cannibal) at some point
but I will only suggest: if you are a Pynchon fan, which you are, I think
you will feel a similarity, a kind of Gothic atmosphere influence at the
simplest,
and, as in this section we are now in, some connection in exploring
the deepest "perverse" psychic states in telling images and scenes.

Part of the opening of The Lime Twig is in the second person:
"Or perhaps you yourself were once the lonely lodger. Perhaps you crossed
the bridges with the night crowds, listened to the tooting of the river
boats and
the sounds of shops closing on the far side, Perhaps the moon was behind
the cathedral.
You walked in the cathedral's shadow while the moon kept shining on three
girls ahead.
And you followed the moonlit girls.".

Except for that second person, I am remind here of the early GR scenes where
the lovers hunt for a place to be, for example. And Hawkes here adds a tone
of more mystery with those perhapses. Like a perspective on Slothrop
it can read, yes? ... And starting  sentences with 'And".

And this is maybe a stretch example I've sent out to see if others feel it
as I wrote above.
More 'perverse' scenes seem much more close in effects.
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