SLPAD 7 - unpolitical // 2 kinds of language

[Mark Kohut]

Herbert Gold was a writer, mostly of fiction but his* Fathers* may not have
been, dunno, who took Nabokov's
gig at Cornell to teach Creative Writing.
I wanted to read him once upon a fantasy time until I read Philip Roth's
superb takedown of one of his novels.
Seems Philip was right as usual since he has faded faster than a sunset in
a storm....
For TRP local matters, that is Cornell connections matter. Just as I have
reread his out of nowhere name-mentioning of
M. E. Beal in Gravity's Rainbow, novelist and some kind of friend of his
from Cornell.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 11:10 PM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> “ Lardass Levine’s conflict in this story is about where to put his
> loyalties.
> Being an unpolitical ’50’s student, I was unaware of this at the time—“
>
>
> I’d like to suggest a tenuous link to Oedipa, the part where she
> acknowledges the influence of her education on the tendencies of her quest.
> But later for that, please.
>
>
> To extrapolate a little, perhaps there was more of a notion of academia as
> above the fray, able to see both sides and so forth…
>
> Which is actually pretty cool & something that still exists, or should
> anyway. On any given issue at a
> given moment, one might have a preference, but the most sustainable stance
> is to be a “seeker of wisdom and truth.”
> https://youtu.be/KzjnxWHl8gA
>
>
>
> Then the other point, which is sort of related, is that he and others of
> his cohort (he mentions Kerouac, Bellow, Roth, & somebody named Herbert
> Gold (mental note: who dat?)) were learning that it was possible to mingle
> “proper” type writing with vernacular writing & to do it successfully.
>
> Kind of like enlisted & officers working together to win WWII?
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