Gore V & Pynchon

[Douglas Holm]

Is there a Gaddis list serv?

> On Oct 9, 2017, at 4:41 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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