<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>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.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>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.<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>; The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:35 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) If I already like ...<br> </font> </div> <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> </div> </div> </div></body></html>