(urth) If I already like ...

[Craig Brewer]

Do you think it's the style? Crowley writes in that anti-Wolfe, "art-literary" not-much-happening-for-awhile style that circles around itself. When Wolfe looks like he's navel-gazing, there's really a lot going on. When Crowley's navel-gazing, he's going deep and putting everything else on pause. That gets to one of those questions of taste. But I think it's something that has frustrated people I know.

Crowley's one of those observational, "hey did you ever notice" writers...whereas Wolfe doesn't re-notice the familiar -- he takes you places you've never been.



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 From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
To: Craig Brewer <cnbrewer at yahoo.com>; The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: (urth) If I already like ...
 
On the other hand...

There's something about Crowley that works for some people and not
others. I'm one of the others. I read all of _Little, Big_ and
ultimately asked myself, "So what?" I could not penetrate beyond page
50 or so of _AEgypt_.

I'm not sure why, but Crowley just goes right over, under, or beside me.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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