<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Totally fair. Tastes differ. Unfortunately, most of the people I give Wolfe don't finish it. But, then, those people are obviously fools.<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Craig Brewer <cnbrewer@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:44 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) If I already like ...<br> </font> </div> <br>
The style is certainly part of it; there were places in _Little, Big_<br>where I felt that Crowley was ... well, not exactly talking down to<br>the reader, but I can't think of a better way to put it. Like Wolfe,<br>he conceals things, but unlike Wolfe, he seems to be almost smirking<br>over what he knows that you don't.<br><br>The observational thing, on the other hand, is all good.<br><br>But the real problem for me is simply that I don't feel, after _n_<br>pages, that I've been given anything for my investment of time. There<br>is, for me, no _there_ there.<br><br>On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Craig Brewer <<a ymailto="mailto:cnbrewer@yahoo.com" href="mailto:cnbrewer@yahoo.com">cnbrewer@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Do you think it's the style? Crowley writes in that anti-Wolfe,<br>> "art-literary" not-much-happening-for-awhile style that circles around<br>> itself. When Wolfe looks like he's navel-gazing, there's really a lot
going<br>> on. When Crowley's navel-gazing, he's going deep and putting everything else<br>> on pause. That gets to one of those questions of taste. But I think it's<br>> something that has frustrated people I know.<br>><br>> Crowley's one of those observational, "hey did you ever notice"<br>> writers...whereas Wolfe doesn't re-notice the familiar -- he takes you<br>> places you've never been.<br>><br>> ________________________________<br>> From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <<a ymailto="mailto:danldo@gmail.com" href="mailto:danldo@gmail.com">danldo@gmail.com</a>><br>> To: Craig Brewer <<a ymailto="mailto:cnbrewer@yahoo.com" href="mailto:cnbrewer@yahoo.com">cnbrewer@yahoo.com</a>>; The Urth Mailing List<br>> <<a ymailto="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net" href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br>> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:35 AM<br>><br>> Subject: Re: (urth) If I already like
...<br>><br>> On the other hand...<br>><br>> There's something about Crowley that works for some people and not<br>> others. I'm one of the others. I read all of _Little, Big_ and<br>> ultimately asked myself, "So what?" I could not penetrate beyond page<br>> 50 or so of _AEgypt_.<br>><br>> I'm not sure why, but Crowley just goes right over, under, or beside me.<br>><br>> --<br>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes<br>><br>><br><br><br><br>-- <br>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>