Posted
10:11 AM
by Gene
A veteran literary logroller for the StinkyInky supposes he is typing Swiftian satire:Simple choice: You want goofy names, kooky groups, multi-claused, roller-coaster, Nabokovian sentences, pop-culture sarcasm, abstruse intellectual arabesques, 10-dollar words, inside jokes, fey attributions, self-parodying guides to interpretation - buy Against the Day.
You want order, coherence, clarity, terseness?
Buy a newspaper.
(Please.)I don't know about the Nabokovian sentences, but it seems to me, Carlin, we get enough of that first list of yours from newspapers -- which is why people are
no longer buying them.
No newspaper, magazine, TV station, gossip columnist or late-breaking blogger has been able to locate Pynchon in his 43-year publishing career.Seeing as how all five on this second list have newspapers in common -- ANOTHER REASON.