<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Again, well put. The few times I encounter negative personal (i.e., nonprofessional) reviews of LB, the same causes are cited: repetition, inaction, lack of resolution. These are at least observable and therefore </span><span>superficially </span><span>real---but they are the kind of challenges that made me reread it again and again. What DID happen? How DID it end---or did it? </span><span>To me, a thousand pages with only a few gorgeous glimpses of <span style="font-style: italic;">something</span> exalted and unreal just behind the veil are well worth it. <br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Some people may not get it that the story eventually turns back around to themselves. What are they left with when the Tale moves on, to wherever it goes, and they return to their own lives? Truth and meaning will not be
delivered to the reader as on a plate---maybe can't even be achieved, merely sought and approached. Readers of Wolfe should not find this situation unfamiliar.<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <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> Craig Brewer <cnbrewer@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo@gmail.com>; The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 18, 2012 12:40 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) If I already like ...<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv1667799828"><div><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></div>
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