NP: DeLillo on Trump's America

[Mark Kohut]

Thanks for this, Thomas, although it is not your fault that the journo and
that playwright
talk in hype falsities: "if DeLillo can't, no one can"---Me, Mr Fanboy
Pynchon would never
even say that about TRP. Says the playwright fanboy, "no other writer's
sentences are as
beautiful". More hype BS, even though his sentences seem superb. (Ever see
that page of his
revisions that has gone round the guitar. It is fascinating for the large
and small revisions).

I would love to see a play of his because.......uh, characters......not the
first thing one thinks of
in his novels.

Also, I once saw a day full of NYC Film festival films when  young and with
a steel-trap
memory--of course, my trap was a filter as well as all real memory is
(except for that Borges character and the guy
Luria wrote about)---and I said Never Again....(without the ability to take
notes the whole time)
because one can't take in the sensations, ideas and scenes never seen
before without thinking about them.
And after such a day, it is as if one has visual autism. Pick one film,
watch it hard and think about it.

has nothing to do with age, I would say, although I'm not as old as DeLillo
and I have no idea how
he sees himself. (is there any major writer with less speculatively
autobiographical material in his work--beyond maybe that first novel?)
And I know I do not want it to have anything, really, to do with age, so
there's that.


On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:02 AM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

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