Hi everybody,
We lapse into silence more and more often, which is not a good thing...
Anyway, I remember Rick's query about the other JB novels as present in...
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Kris Majer
stonk@...
Sep 4, 2001 11:24 pm
I checked the sent messages and of course my mailing program fucked up my
diagram beyond all recognition (literally). So I've uploaded it in a doc
file. You...
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Dave Edelman
dave.edelman@...
Sep 5, 2001 12:46 am
Something I've been meaning to add to my Barth site... I seem to remember reading/hearing somewhere that two of JB's former students were writers John Casey...
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Blair Mahoney
blair.mahoney@...
Sep 5, 2001 1:01 am
There's Vikram Chandra, who I've mentioned previously in this forum......
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Richard Stock
rstock00@...
Sep 5, 2001 12:11 pm
Erdrich is quite a renowned author and poet, both inside Native American circles and out. I've never heard of her being a student of Barth. There are plenty...
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Richard Stock
rstock00@...
Sep 5, 2001 12:21 pm
Kris: can you describe your diagram a bit? I agree that some theme of symmetrical adulteries would be interesting to map out, but I don't see where adulteries...
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dave.edelman@...
Sep 5, 2001 12:51 pm
I just spent about 20 minutes researching Erdrich on the web... and looks like she *was* a student in the Hopkins Writing Seminars program at the same time...
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Kris Majer
stonk@...
Sep 5, 2001 1:27 pm
It was easy to lay down the diagram - now it's time to explain certain
things away. And a tough job that might turn out to be as it's based more on
my...
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agrimorfee@...
Sep 5, 2001 2:35 pm
... students? I cannot confirm this, due to sketchy biographical info, but one gets the impression that David Foster Wallace has at least encountered JB as a...
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agrimorfee@...
Sep 5, 2001 3:06 pm
... certain ... based more on ... I applaud your efforts, K! You work harder than anyone else here to make this board interesting. I think there will be more...
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Kris Majer
stonk@...
Sep 5, 2001 7:51 pm
Ag says:
> I cannot confirm this, due to sketchy biographical info, but one gets
> the impression that David Foster Wallace has at least encountered JB
> as a...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner@...
Sep 5, 2001 8:22 pm
I've been dying to read the Barth caricature too, Kris. Can't find the book in store or library, and have yet to order it. (On a more bilious note, one day I...
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Derik
dbadman@...
Sep 5, 2001 8:46 pm
... I read that one too, but was not all that amused. Of course I haven't liked the DFW short stories I have read either (love his essays though). derik....
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agrimorfee@...
Sep 5, 2001 8:47 pm
... It IS a short story (albeit long). It's a sometimes goofy. sometimes philosophical story about a trio of twenty-somethings on a trip to Springfield,...
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Kris Majer
stonk@...
Sep 5, 2001 9:14 pm
Thanks for the kind words, Ag! And yes, I hope we'll be adding more to the
diagram soon.
> Could all this sleeping around be possibly connected to the...
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Kris Majer
stonk@...
Sep 5, 2001 9:32 pm
Mark sez:
>(On a more bilious note, one day I might post, for laughs,
>Garder's "kneecapping" of JB from *On Moral Fiction*.)
Oh do, do! I've been trying to...
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agrimorfee@...
Sep 5, 2001 10:15 pm
... Of course I haven't ... though). ... Sorry to hear that Derik..I will admit his short stories are more experiments in voice and technique than anything...
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agrimorfee@...
Sep 5, 2001 10:17 pm
... tormentors of ... other matters ... Mee-yow! <lol>...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner@...
Sep 5, 2001 10:47 pm
... Okay. I'll do it tonight or tomorrow. Cheers, Mark ________________________________________________ Don't E-Mail, ZipMail! http://www.zipmail.com/...
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Kris Majer
stonk@...
Sep 5, 2001 11:54 pm
A recent offlist exchange with Dave suggested to me a topic we might want to
consider, on the margin of LETTERS - namely, the instances of authors
bringing...
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Richard Stock
rstock00@...
Sep 6, 2001 10:31 am
This article from the Michigan Daily is pretty funny. The Wallace sentence quoted is a parody (caricature?) of Barth's writing in Funhouse. Then the article...
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Richard Stock
rstock00@...
Sep 6, 2001 2:45 pm
Can anyone think of instances of Recycling where the recycled character is not an Alter Ego of the author? (I agree with Kris to rule out characters like...
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agrimorfee@...
Sep 6, 2001 5:38 pm
... Dave mentioned Vonnegut: and indeed, Kilgore Trout ... too much ... Vonnegut's ... I disagree with you there, by way of "Breakfast Of Champions". ... about...
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agrimorfee@...
Sep 6, 2001 5:41 pm
... character ... character.) ... Do you mean ONLY AS THE MAIN CHARACTER? If no, see my King post above. If yes, none are to my knowledge....
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Kris Majer
stonk@...
Sep 6, 2001 7:19 pm
I said re Vonnegut's Trout:
> >not sure if Trout appears in all of Vonnegut's
> > novels, but certainly in most - never as the main character
and was...
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Kris Majer
stonk@...
Sep 8, 2001 4:21 pm
I just had to share the good news with you, I'm going to the Residents'
concert tomorrow in Warsaw, part of their "Icky Flicks" tour. Too excited to
think...
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Michael Perez
studiovheissu@...
Sep 8, 2001 8:15 pm
Kris wrote: "I'm going to the Residents' concert tomorrow in Warsaw, part of their 'Icky Flicks' tour. Too excited to think about anything else, even LETTERS...
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agrimorfee@...
Sep 8, 2001 8:25 pm
... Residents' ... excited to ... Woo-Woo, K! Have a eyeballin' good time! Please review on Monday !!!! (You can always contribute to the Smelly Tongues...
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agrimorfee@...
Sep 11, 2001 5:11 pm
Everyone, due to the crises affecting the country, I will be not checking in here until..whenever. My only access is at work, downtown Chicago. We're closing...
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Kris Majer
stonk@...
Sep 11, 2001 6:42 pm
I have been watching the news for the last four hours and I still can't
believe it...
I hope all of you and yours are all right.
Love and support,
K. -- ...
