Blue Lard

[David Morris]

Absurdity and surreality can be subtle, deeply layered, and indeterminate
in the most provoking ways.  But the author needs to be (or have access to)
a very sharp editor to help him nip back temptations that usually destroy
these unmoored works.

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 4:34 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nah.....just rich serial layering.....just embodied IDEAS which works if
> the prose does.....i mean Pynchon? or
> a surreal Gaddis/
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 4:31 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah. Now you are offering a bit of framework, a few nails and nuts and a
>> napkin sketch. It’s a good start, but it begins to feel like a morality
>> conundrum (at best- Please not (Buddha help me) a scold). I prefer Kafka.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 3:38 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> O David,
>>>
>>> I'll take Why when ONLY for $100.
>>>
>>> Art is original, When a copy is attempted it is all fat. And, one of the
>>> seven types of ambiguity,
>>> when burnt (by the 20th Century) the puddle is left....
>>>
>>> Fake via The Recognitions; the Borges Pierre Menard story.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 2:06 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> *“clone famous Russian writers, who are then made to produce texts in
>>>> the
>>>> style of their forebears.”*
>>>>
>>>> This description lost me right here. *How did they “make”* the famous
>>>
>>>
>>>> Russian writer clones produce texts? Since the text they are producing
>>>> is
>>>> only a byproduct, what qualifies of clone mental activity produces Blue
>>>> Lard?
>>>>
>>>> Why is it the Blue Lard *ONLY produced when clones of famous Russian
>>>> writers attempt to “copy themselves*?”
>>>> --
>>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>>
>>>