SLPAD - 53

[Mark Kohut]

When Sartre was so hot, *Being and Nothingness *was actually a rack-size
paperback in the US.
Imagine: newsstand and drugstore distribution with that title.
I took a course on it and I won't brag but.....I could.

https://www.amazon.com/Being-and-Nothingness/dp/B00SLU8FIK/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3UN0TFXYABT2J&keywords=being+and+nothingness+by+jean-paul+sartre&qid=1682067706&sprefix=Being+and+%2Caps%2C84&sr=8-3

Form and Value in Modern Poetry would have taught me something more had I
read it but I hardly did if I did at all although I believe I once owned
it.
Discovering Blackmur did lead to me reading some great essays on novels by
him, which did teach me something, I hope. A slow, careful, selective
critic.

TRP knew budding serious readers of his times....because he was one, but
here I detect satire.....



On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 4:07 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> “Rizzo was a staff sergeant. He was also the company intellectual. He would
> lie in his bunk and read things like Being and Nothingness and Form and
> Value in Modern Poetry…”
>
>
> Amusing italic mismatch in the Nook book: it looks like he’s reading _Being
> and Nothingness and Form_ and _Value in Modern Poetry_.
>
> I’d buy either of those titles, hypothetically.
>
> Anyhoo, Rizzo leads bull sessions with Levine and Picnic in the canteen or
> the PX - at least in terms of word count.
>
>
>
> “ They drove into town and found a quiet bar near a high school. There were
> a couple of schoolkids sitting at the bar but otherwise the place was
> empty.”
>
> Underage drinkers, what next?
>
> The four of them begin to settle in, Baxter buying a newspaper, Rizzo
> heading for the “latrine” (you can take the soldier out of the barracks…),
> Picnic falling into a doze, and Levine resuming a frequent habit of
>
> “ pursing his lips like Marlon Brando and scratching his armpit. Sometimes,
> depending on his mood, he would make quiet ape noises. “
>
> https://youtu.be/BBVAS8qNZZI
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