NP - Gaddis

[David Morris]

Amen!  I also dislike the same in V.

David Morris

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 7:25 AM Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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-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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