Gore V & Pynchon

[Douglas Holm]

Thanks!  I'll join. Love Gaddis. Recently I've been reading his letters and a bio of the writer.  

> On Oct 9, 2017, at 11:32 AM, bulb <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:
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> gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com
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> Very low volume.
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> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Holm
> Sent: maandag 9 oktober 2017 18:41
> To: Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> Cc: Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>; Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; Brad Andrews <braden.andrews at gmail.com>; Christopher Kerr <christopherker at gmail.com>; Mark M. <pov at ix.netcom.com>; Mark Levine <leevyne at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: Gore V & Pynchon
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> Is there a Gaddis list serv?
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> On Oct 9, 2017, at 4:41 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Jerky
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> 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. 
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> Arthur
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> 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.
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> Ole V, who famously 'hated' GR but musta loved the begiinning
> or the genital-shaped cloud image re THE BOMB later.....
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> or else came up with his own image independently. 
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> Anyway, nice.
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> Arthur
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