GET ME REWRITE! Trying to write something on Roth's Our Gang while rereading it during the Trump regime (sic)

[Mark Kohut]

I remember when Morris, who also agreed with Jochen re those noontide
bells, sent the Bellow bit
about overinterpreting. Easy to do and maybe especially when the text is
wrong.

It has been pointed out to me that what I read in the supposedly canonical
L of A edition of Roth's *Our Gang*  is
a misprint. A missing word makes the sentence a complete sentence.

Another corrupted text! Ala, you know. Erect Severehead is still a fine
parody.




An early morning close-as-white-on-rice reading since it is the only way I
>> can attack it
>> not being a natural genius reader---I have found a sure typo, I think, on
>> page 538 of the canonical
>> Library of America edition which I must send to them since eternal
>> exactitude matters but
>> this short post is just to point out one sly, unexpected moment of Roth's
>> genius.
>>
>> Late in the book he has a TV pundit modeled after Eric Severeid (named
>> Erect Severehead)
>> with a self-proclaimed "cogent news analysis" who speechmakes portentously
>> in high-toned heavy words but short, straightforward TV sentences
>> until we read this one: "And it is that very mortality that the men in the
>> corridors of power."   SIC.
>>
>> Unless this is some kind of misprinting mistake, which I can't believe,
>> Roth gives him an incomplete sentence
>> in the middle of his TV profundities. Lost so in the Big Thoughts he loses
>> the basic sentence. Love it. (Reminds me of
>> me, sometimes)
>>
>> Genius, I say, pure genius.
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