Arrggh

[Mark Kohut]

OBLOMOV is the first Samuel Beckett masterpiece in history. (Unless
"Bartleby the Scrivener" predates it)
 I urge all.

Henry Roth's "Confessions" ?...Do you mean CALL IT SLEEP?..
Or the even truer confessions known as MERCY OF A RUDE STREAM, in four
volumes?

On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 1:36 PM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ada is my fave. A rare monster.
> Speaking of incest, and narcissism...and some how Russian books (Oblomov?),
> check out The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend. And
> incest, any Henry Roth fans read his old Confessions?
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 12:56 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I read Ada years ago, and ultimately found it annoying.  I think Nabokov
> > intended it to be a literary puzzle, like Pale Fire.  But this puzzle's
> > solution is beyond the reach of all readers so far.  Some find his
> > description of the interactions of incestuous, insanely rich, and
> > narcissistic siblings interesting enough on their own account.  I didn't.
> >
> > I haven't read Pnin.
> >
> > I'd recommend:
> > Invitation to a Beheading
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 11:42 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I've read Pale Fire and Lolita. Ada or Pnin next?
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 4:40 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > It made me think of a line in a fine book by an author who was
> perhaps a
> > > > little too full of himself:
> > > >
> > > > With the help of the janitor he screwed on to the side of the desk a
> > > pencil
> > > > sharpener--that highly satisfying, highly philosophical instrument
> that
> > > > goes ticonderoga-ticonderoga, feeding on the yellow finish and sweet
> > > wood,
> > > > and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all
> > > must.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Am Di., 5. Nov. 2019 um 22:27 Uhr schrieb John Bailey <
> > > sundayjb at gmail.com
> > > > >:
> > > >
> > > > > I loved this line in the original email and read it a bunch of
> times.
> > > > > Many thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 6:15 AM Raphael Saltwood
> > > > > <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ...few indeed forward to the shuffling off of whose mortal coil
> one
> > > > less
> > > > > eagerly looks...,
> > > > > >
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