NP: RIP William Gass

[Mark Thibodeau]

Aw, man.

I tried reading The Tunnel when it first came out (really I tried). It was
back during the roughly 10 year period when I was trying to read ALL the
new Really Big Books coming out (Mason & Dixon, Infinite Jest, Underworld,
Sewer Gas and Electric, Snow Crash/Cryptonomicon, A Frolic of His Own,
Europe Central, etc).

It was one of those that fell by the wayside pretty early on.

Maybe I'll give some of his other writing a chance.

Jerky

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "Why should you love every woman that walks by?"
>
> Why not, theoretically speaking?
>
> 2017-12-07 16:16 GMT+01:00 Atticus Pinecone <atticuspinecone at gmail.com>:
>
>> RIP
>>
>> On Dec 7, 2017, at 10:07 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> https://bigother.com/2012/07/30/the-gass-sentences-a-top-50-
>> by-stephen-schenkenberg/
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Gerke: Any thoughts on Sebald?
>>>
>>> Gass: Didn’t read him. I read about 10 pages. That wasn’t just to him.
>>> But I could see the rush of this wave of popularity that is almost a death
>>> now. So I’m going to have to go back sometime when it’s calmed down and
>>> see, because sometimes they’re actually very good. And I’m very arrogant
>>> about my judgment. I don’t make mistakes.
>>>
>>> Gerke: Is that the case with David Foster Wallace too?
>>>
>>> Gass: He had great abilities. And I think he needed to tame them. I
>>> think he was so good that he should’ve wanted to be better. And he wrote
>>> some things that are going to stay around. And I wish he had stayed around
>>> and done that. He had lots of smarts too. He was unlike a lot of writers
>>> who are sort of dumb, theoretically speaking. Stanley was street-smart but
>>> intellectually? Awful. But he didn’t need to be. Pynchon’s a case. I have
>>> tried to read Pynchon with no success so far, but then I can’t read
>>> Whitman—I try. So we just have blank spots. We can’t like everything, and I
>>> don’t see any rule for it. Why should you love every woman that walks by?
>>>
>>
>>
>

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