—Ulysses! that whole business again, well it's not true it's bullshit I did not read it I'm telling you I did not read the damn thing I did not . . . In that cramped interval between his fingers' faltering insistence and the floor's mute expectancy, the cylindrical burden already half‑forgotten as an object and remembered only as the fleeting damp it had impressed upon his palm described its reluctant descent, a kind of minor abdication enacted with all the misplaced ceremony of something that had never belonged to his grasp in the first place. —Oh hi Anon.
Can you discuss literature or just gossip like a teenage girl?
>>25044548>In that cramped interval between his fingers' faltering insistence and the floor's mute expectancy, the cylindrical burden already half‑forgotten as an object and remembered only as the fleeting damp it had impressed upon his palm described its reluctant descent, a kind of minor abdication enacted with all the misplaced ceremony of something that had never belonged to his grasp in the first place.Kek spot on
>Can you discuss literature or just gossip like a teenage girl?
>>25045023>i limit my self awareness to orgasms
>>25045080>Excerpted from 'The Letters of William Gaddis' (ed. Steven Moore)
>>25044548I did not read it... it's bullshit....i did not read it. I did NAAT
>>25045500Easy on the daiquiris, Willy.
Do you think Gaddis ever heard English rock combo The Cure's 1982 LP "Pornography"?
>>25044548biggest little bitch in american letters
At least he was being an insecure liar in a subtle way unlike that preening pompous maggot Nabokov
>>25049856rent free
>be Gaddis>write 1000 page book on authenticity, creativity, art and life>retards spend the next the next 70 years ironically proving they completely missed the point in the most hilarious way possible>can't call them out on it>would ruin the fun of people who havn't read it yet>not like it would change anything anyways, retards be retarded after all>what do?>need to retard proof next book>1000 pages of unattributed dialogue should do the job
>>25044577You mean the trollotype that is on every board and possibly bots at this point?
>>25050850kek.
>>25049856what did big nab lie about
>>25044548This niqqa was a thousand percent CIA.
>>25053849What makes you think that?
Otto :)
>>25055464e mezzo (:
>>25056633I am not sure what you are getting at? you mean half from an analytical standpoint in that combined with Wyatt he provides a full perspective? Otto is one of my favorite characters, few make me laugh like Otto makes me laugh.
>>25054975No one can say what exactly blud was doing traveling all over Mexico, Europe, Africa and South America during the cold war after getting "kicked out" of Harvard, or what his PR/documentary work for the US Army and some of the biggest American corporations entailed. Some, however, may speculate that the guy working in South America for the CIA's notorious United Fruit in TR was based on his own experiences thoughbeit
>>25056907Interesting. I want to read the Joseph Tabbi book on this guy but I haven't found it anywhere online.
>>25056907quite generous of you. to me he just scans as a seething midwit, forever butthurt that the world didn't embrace his """genius""" and relieve him of wage labor. many such cases
I own a controlling stake in the William Gaddis estate AMA
>>25059654Why do you larp on an American weeb forum?
So what's with this supposed connection between Gaddis and Joyce? I read Ulysses years ago, so it's not top of mind, but I did just finish J R and I don't see the resemblance. Is there a clearer influence on The Recognitions? (I haven't read anything else of Gaddis at this point.) Or is it just something like "Joyce wrote an unconventional, big, difficult novel. Gaddis did too. Therefore, Gaddis is really just regurgitating Joyce."? I just listened to an interview of Steven Moore and this topic came up. What's the deal?
>>25059722Retards be retards. There isn't much there worth considering.
>>25059722Gaddis was clearly lying about not having read it.
>>25060366why do you say that and why does it matter?
>>25059666Huh what u mean
>a "Jack Gibbs" makes numerous appearances in the Epstein flight logsGaddisbros…
>>25059722What did Moore have to say?
>>25056907You should read Carpenter's Gothic
>>25067223Is Carpenter's Gothic more of the do everything in the dialogue? Really would like to see him developing some of things he did in TR other than the dialogue, things like the first chapter of part 2 are and I want more. The pure dialogue is interesting and fun, but not my thing.
>>25067289It's mostly dialogue and transitional narration where swaths of time pass or activities that occur alone and in silence are narrated. I mention it because one of the main character's is ex-CIA fronting as some kind of natural scientist.
>>25067223No one should read Carpenter's Gothic.
>>25069009Everyone should read Carpenter's Gothic (I have not)
>>25069117I shan't, but I just ordered A Frolic of His Own.
>>25065849Nothing significant. He just said Gaddis denied ever having read Ulysses and that Moore had no reason to believe that he had actually read it, given his talks with him and research. It came off as something like "oh this topic again..." and he gave a quick canned answer.
>>25044548WTF!
>>25070141Figures. Company man.
You lissies? You mean Od-oosaeous?
>>25071203Fart-sniffing convention?
>>25072715oh word?
>>25071203>START>DOING>*THIS*
>>25056860Otto e mezzo is a very famous Italian movie from the 1960s about a movie director who reflects on his childhood Im not sure the relevance just saying
>>25077149real
>>25063507>---That's the thing Bast you don't even, see you don't even have to actually do anything like illegal or moral or whatever you just email this here jay ee vacatio-, vacationing, and see then he puts you on the flight logs and he knows all these guys Bast you wouldn't believe all the guys he knows. I mean like say I want to get this guy elected who like he would pass this law right to make, well to, it doesn't matter but I want him to win - he can just call up these other guys and get these ads on tv or the radio or whatever. You have no idea, I mean holy - Bast? Hey Bast?
this thread is like one of the party scenes in recognitions
Is he the last based American novelist?
>>25080600seeing as mccarthy squandered his basedclout on hanging with the santa fe faggots for 30 years, probably yeah
>>25080600I am the last based American novelist.
The Letters of. Talk to me. Need it or keep it?
>>25079206These plebs probably don't know a single thing about the solids in Uccello
This thread turned me on to Gaddis. He sounds based. Gonna start with J R.
>>25085659Let us know if you ever finish it.
>>25085659jr is the deconstruckted club of books (true story)
—Don’t move don’t talk outta time don’t think don’t worry everything’s just fine just fine don’t grab don’t clutch don’t hope for too much don’t breathe don’t achieve don’t grieve without leave don’t check just balance on the fence don’t answer don’t ask don’t try and make sense don’t whisper don’t talk don’t run if you can walk don’t cheat, compete don’t miss the one beat don’t travel by train don’t eat don’t spill don’t piss in the drain don’t make a will don’t fill out any forms don’t compensate don’t cower don’t crawl don’t come around late don’t hover at the gate dom’t take it on board don’t fall on your sword just play another chord if you feel you're getting bored. . . .—I feel numb . . .—Don't change your brand don’t listen to the band don’t gape don’t ape don’t change your shape have another grape . . . don’t plead don’t bridle don’t shackle don’t grind don’t curve don’t swerve, lie, die, serve . . . don’t theorize, realize, polarize, chance, dance, dismiss, apologize. . . .—I feel numb. . .—Don’t spy don’t lie don’t try, imply, detain, explain, start again . . . don’t triumph don’t coax don’t cling don’t hoax don’t freak, peak, don’t leak don’t speak . . . don’t struggle don’t jerk don’t collar don’t work don’t wish don’t fish don’t teach don’t reach don’t borrow don’t break don’t fence don’t steal don’t pass don’t press don’t try don’t feel don’t touch don’t dive don’t suffer don’t rhyme don’t fantasize don’t rise don’t lie. . . .—I feel numb . . .—Don’t project don’t connect, protect, don’t expect, suggest. . . .
Why is this thread still alive?
>>25089660Why are you still alive?
>>25089664Cowardice, mostly.
