From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser

[Erik T. Burns]

Have y’all read William Gaddis?
I mean, I bet you have.
But on the off chance...
He blew my mind right after Pynchon did, and in a totally different way.
Plus you don’t have to fret his impending doom....he’s already gone.

J R, The Recognitions, A Frolic of His Own, Carpenter’s Gothic, Agapé Agape

In that order. For me.



On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:40 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Associative non-sequitur: One of the layered meaningful pleasures of
> *Ducks, Newburyport *is the way the narrator keeps commenting on the Little
> House on the Prairie
> books......how full of romantic, idealistic bs they are....
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:58 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > And I'm wondering if the latest version of Little Women will have the
> guts
> > to film that novel's ending, wherein the heroine marries a creepy older
> > man.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 10:41 AM
> > Subject: Re: From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser
> > To: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> > Cc: “pynchon-l at waste.org“ <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >
> >
> > I know you to be a voracious reader, may you never run out of what is, at
> > least in a relative sense, new.
> >
> > I will mourn the individual's passing, (and the coming harvest will be
> > quite concentrated) but continue to use the present tense when speaking
> of
> > them.
> >
> >
> > love,
> >
> > cfa
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 9:32 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Soon the curtain of one's literary heroes gracing us with new work will
> > > close. The current obsessions of new and upcoming fiction writers I
> have
> > > found are not mine, worthy as they are. I wont be one of those grumps
> > > bemoaning the ascendance of a new generation of writers. But it does
> > sadden
> > > me a bit that soon there won't be anyone left for me to put on my
> > personal
> > > pedestal. Part of me realizes this is just natural. But I will miss the
> > > excitement  I once had.
> > > musing on a snowy winter's day
> > >
> > > rich
> > > --
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> > >
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