NP - Gaddis

[Charles Albert]

Now that this shit's on fire, I want to make perfectly clear that I did not
intend to imply that I was bringing this novel to the list. I know Badger
reads it every other BM, and Chris K gave me my copy of JR (which I
couldn't make any progress with before).

And get off my boy Arthur's back, kids.


Don't make me come over there!


love,
cfa

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 2:47 PM, bulb <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:

> Agree.
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> *From:* owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Robert Mahnke
> *Sent:* maandag 10 juli 2017 19:56
> *To:* Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com>; rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>;
> Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com>; Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Subject:* Re: NP - Gaddis
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> Is there genius in The Corrections? What did I miss?
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> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> All our circles of info are different but I thought I was occasionally
> seeing Gaddis's genius being accepted and praised more, as Franzen's slowly
> recedes to one book, THE CORRECTIONS, and that so yesterday--as good and
> important as Booth Tarkington, I said to somebody--- but for contemporary
> events.
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> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 7:13 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I finished The Recognitions about two years ago and after being blown away
> by it, was soon at a loss to describe it. Where does one begin?
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> I’m surprised that you don’t hear his name more often. I think I only came
> across it in a DFW essay.
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> Has anyone read JR? Trying to get the nerve up to start that one.
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> On Jul 9, 2017, at 12:18 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> rich
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> On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 2:54 PM Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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....
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> -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.
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> It sets up like Bierce, and then the punchline is not another artfully
> engineered clause or sentence - it's ONE word.
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> It gives me wood......
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> love,
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> cfa
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