NP - Gaddis

[rich]

The New Yorker just had a long piece on Texas and it's politics, some
harbinger of the future of America with its starved and obscene, religious
wing nuts, ad infinitum.
Gaddis was and remains for me  a refreshing cudgel upon the heads of such
rampant stupidity and malice but reading the article leads one to think
it's gotten even worse.
It's funny how often Gaddis gets trashed now beyond the idiot Franzen. Yet
no one has reached the heights WG landed in just 4 novels.

rich

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 2:54 PM Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've spent the past couple of years feeling like one of those halfwit
> monks described in The Swerve. This is the first period of time I've had to
> read something big on the ever expanding list.
>
> Given how hard it was to find for so long, I'm certain not everyone has
> The Recognitions, so I wanted to share the moment when I believe I may have
> fallen in love....
>
>
> -Your father's father, she corrected him sharply, but her voice broke,
> almost bitter as she looked away, not for the death of her brother but to
> insinuate that he had abandoned her in this bondage of mortality. She
> talked to Wyatt familiarly of death, as though to take him with her would
> be the kindest expression of her love for him possible: still, she never
> spoke directly of death, never named it so, but continued to treat it with
> the euphemistic care reserved elsewhere for obscenity.
>
>
> It sets up like Bierce, and then the punchline is not another artfully
> engineered clause or sentence - it's ONE word.
>
> It gives me wood......
>
> love,
>
> cfa
>
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