... [Ba-bing!] [Note to self: experiment w/ a story about a taping of Letterman narrated from Anton Fig's p.o.v. Reconsult David Foster Wallace's *My...
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Prince Mu-Chao
princemuchao
Dec 31, 2002 4:30 pm
... From: <Alan_Plessinger@...> ... I would have to say Night Sea Journey for sure. It was the first thing of Barth's I had ever read (besides...
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jrowanr@...
Dec 31, 2002 8:27 pm
Mark, Did you ever see Barth do a public reading of "Menelaid";? It was a show-- with the man himself (30 years younger, to be sure) leaping about the stage,...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Dec 31, 2002 8:46 pm
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 15:27:16 EST ... No I hadn't yet heard of Barth yet back then. Then again, I was less than a year old. I do have this, though: [Barth,...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Dec 31, 2002 9:09 pm
... BTW, he reads "Echo" and either "Title" or "Autobiography", I forget which. ________________________________________________ Don't E-Mail, ZipMail!...
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electraalan <Alan_...
electraalan
Dec 31, 2002 11:39 pm
I'm also a fan of Dickens, and I guess there's not two writers less alike than Barth and Dickens. For many reasons, not the least of which being that Dickens...
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Barbara Schmidt
barbstoo
Jan 1, 2003 12:44 am
our current non-read certainly has earnest, emotional, poignant passages which remain self-conscious but imho no less affecting ... From: electraalan...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Jan 1, 2003 4:20 am
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 23:39:27 -0000 "electraalan <Alan_Plessinger@...>" ... passage? Keep reading. Best, Mark ...
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electraalan <Alan_...
electraalan
Jan 1, 2003 6:16 am
... OK. It's "Sabbatical" next, for me, which I think I'm going to enjoy because I loved Todd Andrews' last voyage so much in "LETTERS"....
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Mal McCormack <ann...
malmc_y
Jan 1, 2003 6:52 am
Hello and hope you all survive(d) the ruination of yet another new year party. I did, barely. Well, apropos the subject line, I think it's horses for courses....
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agrimorfee <agrimo...
agrimorfee
Jan 1, 2003 8:36 am
... create a truly earnest, emotional, poignant ... I think many of his characters have individual moments--epiphanies, if you will--that stand out for...
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Mal McCormack <ann...
malmc_y
Jan 1, 2003 8:54 am
... Mark, thanks for that link! I've just spent the last hour+ on it and it has the best audio I've ever heard through my (nominally) 56K modem. But boy!,...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Jan 1, 2003 10:35 pm
... hour+ on it and ... (nominally) 56K ... well-seasoned public ... Is it me, or does he misremember the opening order of events in The End of the Road? I...
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orders
orders@...
Jan 1, 2003 11:09 pm
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agrimorfee <agrimo...
agrimorfee
Jan 2, 2003 7:45 pm
Just in case, ignore that post "Some questions" I think there is a virus goin' round....weird stuff happened at Spirial Bound too. Anyway, back to business--I...
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electraalan <Alan_...
electraalan
Jan 8, 2003 6:31 pm
Was Barth making an attempt to be very clear in this one, to never confuse the reader? In an attempt to, well, you know, sell a lot of books? I've just started...
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Brawner, Mark
mark.brawner@...
Jan 8, 2003 8:02 pm
Well, LETTERS was seven years in the writing, so one guesses the prospect of writing something substantially shorter and more accessible was attractive. Plus,...
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Mal McCormack <ann...
malmc_y
Jan 12, 2003 1:43 pm
Well, the book (forget the priviliged trade copies to certain people -- how're you doin', Blair?) has only recently sneaked into Oz. What was everybody...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Jan 12, 2003 6:03 pm
... OWTS? I'll post some reflections in a day or so on on the title story, which we somehow managed to pass over (right?). Then we can leap over "Love...
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agrimorfee <agrimo...
agrimorfee
Jan 13, 2003 5:16 pm
... Yeah, I put it "sorta close" too, Mal...one of the problems I had with the book is that JB doesn't remain consistent with his conceits or his plot, and has...
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electraalan <Alan_...
electraalan
Jan 14, 2003 8:20 pm
I've heard it said that a hero is not someone who finds himself in danger; a hero is someone who puts himself in danger. Is this true? Because if so it...
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JTL
jorgentlarsen
Jan 17, 2003 4:45 pm
Mark wrote "appeartance" Is that Newspeak for appearance for accepting [an award]? Happy new years everyone Since I've been "down" for a while. I figure that...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Jan 17, 2003 5:21 pm
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:19:55 -0300 ... Mere run o'-the-mill typo. Did you listen to the 2-part Bookworm interview? It's quite good, once you get used to ...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Jan 17, 2003 7:00 pm
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:03:43 -0500 ... Mal is going to be laying low for awhile, so I've kind of lost my enthusiasm to do this. Maybe later. Best, Mark ...
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jennanney <jennann...
jennanney@...
Jan 22, 2003 9:48 pm
Hi! My name is Jennifer Nanney and I am a Sophomore Humanities/ Art major at Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi. I am taking a very difficult English...
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Brawner, Mark
mark.brawner@...
Jan 22, 2003 10:04 pm
The book's first publisher made JSB tweak his original intended ending so it wasn't so bleak. This ending was subsequently restored to the revised version....
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Rick_Slade@...
Jan 22, 2003 10:34 pm
This may help: (from http://www.dave-edelman.com/barth/opera.cfm) Amazingly, Barth's editor called the original ending of the book "too dark" and made him...
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agrimorfee <agrimo...
agrimorfee
Jan 27, 2003 6:15 pm
Hey guys, is there a link to the original ending of Floating Opera somewhere, or can someone give a little synopsis of how it went? Barring these options, I...
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electraalan <Alan_...
electraalan
Jan 27, 2003 10:25 pm
Todd Andrews' second to last letter is a masterpiece. Taking his final voyage on his boat prior to killing himself. I'm sure you'll enjoy it if you haven't...
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agrimorfee <agrimo...
agrimorfee
Jan 28, 2003 8:34 pm
... final ... it ... Just for the hell of it I am reading Todd Andrews' ... dAMN! Oh Yes! Everything about Todd A. just kicks my cerebral ass in LETTERS...the...
