NP - Gaddis

[Monte Davis]

I'll bad-mouth the endless, drivelous art/culture chitchat at every
gathering of three or more in _The Recognitions. It goes way beyond the
call of satire (cf. the Whole Sick Crew in V.), and doesn't have the
fine-tuned ear of the best parts of JR. And it goes on and on and on.

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So no help on the "who's bad-mouthing Gaddis" front? I'm genuinely curious.
>
> YOPJ
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:32 PM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> Frolic is worth reading just for the judge’s long decision about the lost
>> dog. My attorney friends loved it.
>>
>> On Jul 14, 2017, at 7:02 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Very nice. Now I need to get around to reading Frolic.
>>
>> On Jul 14, 2017, at 5:27 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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-americ
>> an-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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