NP - Gaddis

[Robert Mahnke]

Apropos of Gaddis not being trashed, here is an appreciation of A Frolic Of
His Own:

http://www.themillions.com/2016/06/william-gaddis-and-american-justice.html

Maybe someone else already shared this -- if so, apologies.

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Who is trashing Gaddis?! Particularly "beyond the idiot Franzen"?!
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> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 12:18 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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