Gore V & Pynchon

[Mark Thibodeau]

Somewhat of a lost Gaddis masterpiece is the collection "The Rush for
Second Place", which contains his original notes for "Agape Agape", which
are fucking fascinating and brilliant.

Jerky

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not to wander off-thread, but is there a similar place where we might
> discuss the works of William Gaddis. *JR* was perhaps my fave novel of
> his, but *The Recognitions* and *A Frolic of His Own *are masterpieces,
> IMHO. I think that my favorites are The Recognitions and JR, but A Frolic
> is so hilarious that it cannot be lightly dismissed. It's a little bit like
> Catch 22. It's too preposterous to take seriously, but it's so real that
> you just know this is the underbelly of what happened with the
> lawsuit-industry.
>
> Arthur
>
> On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "By 1945, with the defeat of Germany in the east and of
>> japan in the west, the American Empire was at high noon,
>> its emblem not the eagle but the death-seeding phallic cloud."
>>                -Gore V. "Fire Over England' in Screening History, 1992, p
>> 37.
>>
>> Ole V, who famously 'hated' GR but musta loved the begiinning
>> or the genital-shaped cloud image re THE BOMB later.....
>>
>> or else came up with his own image independently.
>>
>> Anyway, nice.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Arthur
>
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