NP: RIP William Gass

[Smoke Teff]

Omensetter’s Luck is a beautiful novel

> On Dec 7, 2017, at 6:55 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Aw, man.
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> 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). 
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> It was one of those that fell by the wayside pretty early on.
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> Maybe I'll give some of his other writing a chance.
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> Jerky
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>> 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?"
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>> Why not, theoretically speaking?
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>> 2017-12-07 16:16 GMT+01:00 Atticus Pinecone <atticuspinecone at gmail.com>:
>>> RIP
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>>>> On Dec 7, 2017, at 10:07 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> https://bigother.com/2012/07/30/the-gass-sentences-a-top-50-by-stephen-schenkenberg/
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>>>>> 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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