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<div>I think so too.</div>
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<div>I'm almost done with... Middlemarch. =) It's a discursive novel, very confident in its size, it strolls, and Eliot intrudes her voice in the text maybe a little too often, but the girlfriend suggests that Eliot's voice is really the voice of ... Middlemarch.</div>
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<div>The point of the novel seems to be, don't count too much on money or marriage. I think a beastie or two would liven things up. Zounds! The alzabo ate Ladislaw!</div>
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<div>It is really a lovely story -- slow, wise, smart. After awhile I don't mind that Eliot is showing off so much, since she does so with self-aware humor.</div>
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1. What are you reading? (Antonin Scriabin)<br />
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:26:04 -0400<br />
From: Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian@gmail.com><br />
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Hello, Urthlings. What are you reading these days? I haven't been reading<br />
much Wolfe lately, so nothing is fresh enough in my mind to participate in<br />
some of the other ongoing discussions.<br />
<br />
I am working my way through the Harvard Classics. I just finished the<br />
fourth volume, the complete poems in English by John Milton. *Paradise<br />
Lost *was a treat, as was Franklin's autobiography in the first volume and<br />
the *New Atlantis *by Bacon in the third, which is an old favorite of mine<br />
from my philosophy major days.<br />
<br />
I've also recently read *The Sea, the Sea *by Iris Murdoch, which was<br />
excellent, and *The City of Dreaming Books *by Moers, which was great,<br />
silly fun*.* I also read the first 50 pages of *Lookout Cartridge* by<br />
McElroy and decided to put it back on the shelf for the time being. It<br />
wasn't particularly *bad, *it was just entirely unsuccessful in grabbing my<br />
attention within a reasonable amount of time, together with being written<br />
in a very disjointed, unique style. I will probably get back to it in the<br />
near future.<br />
<br />
Anyway, I am getting back on a Wolfe kick today by finishing the latter<br />
half of *The Island of Doctor Death, and Other Stories, and Other Stories*.<br />
Looking forward to it!<br />
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 06:49:47 -0700<br />
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On Mar 12, 2014, at 6:26 AM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian@gmail.com> wrote:<br />
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> Hello, Urthlings. What are you reading these days? I haven't been reading much Wolfe lately, so nothing is fresh enough in my mind to participate in some of the other ongoing discussions.<br />
><br />
> I am working my way through the Harvard Classics. I just finished the fourth volume, the complete poems in English by John Milton. Paradise Lost was a treat, as was Franklin's autobiography in the first volume and the New Atlantis by Bacon in the third, which is an old favorite of mine from my philosophy major days.<br />
><br />
> I've also recently read The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, which was excellent, and The City of Dreaming Books by Moers, which was great, silly fun. I also read the first 50 pages of Lookout Cartridge by McElroy and decided to put it back on the shelf for the time being. It wasn't particularly bad, it was just entirely unsuccessful in grabbing my attention within a reasonable amount of time, together with being written in a very disjointed, unique style. I will probably get back to it in the near future.<br />
><br />
> Anyway, I am getting back on a Wolfe kick today by finishing the latter half of The Island of Doctor Death, and Other Stories, and Other Stories. Looking forward to it!<br />
> _______________________________________________<br />
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Haven't read much lately but in the middle of Musil's Man of No Qualities, in about the fifth volume of Sturgeon's collected stories, Mishima's Forbidden Colors (Mishima's philosophy always interested me), Bolano's 2666 which seems to me at its heart kind of a Twin Peaks urban fantasy. Surprised it got any literary attention. McElroy has always been one of those authors I feel I should like but in execution he seems rather boring. At least you have to pay attention when you read him.<br />
<br />
My Peace write up is "done" but it is missing a connection I know that is lurking, between the devils of hell with misplaced limbs who are one with their victims and the carnival people and the dog boy whom Weer's father will take hunting in a dream and languishes across Weer's leg as he thinks of his picnic with Margeret Lorn, so I am waiting on that final edit to post it. After that I will be on Forleson. I have not abandoned my project but I have to be in the right frame of mind to do quality work on it.<br />
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Clearly island of doctor death and other stories is Wolfe's best collection.<br />
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:58:57 +0000<br />
From: Daniel Otto Jack Petersen <danielottojackpetersen@gmail.com><br />
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Just finished R. A. Lafferty's late novel *Serpent's Egg* (1987) last week<br />
- mad brilliance as always. (Read John Williams's *Butcher's Crossing* just<br />
before that - existential buffalo hunting, ya can't beat that.) Reading<br />
the stories in the new Centipede Press volume 1 of Lafferty's complete<br />
short stories - whenever I have the chance to sit down and carefully handle<br />
the book (as I usually have books thrust in a backpack getting bent up as I<br />
read them all over the place in between everything). Have already read all<br />
those stories, but hugely enjoying revisiting them, especially in a quality<br />
physical format worthy of them.<br />
<br />
Realised I hadn't finished the last 30 or so pages of King's *Salem's Lot*,<br />
so gonna round that out.<br />
<br />
Recently read a 200 page poem from the Middle Ages called *Piers<br />
Plowman*(14th c.) - it was for a course I'm in. *Paradise<br />
Lost* is one of my all time fave long poems and *Piers *has probably shot<br />
right up there with it. The latter actually makes a very interesting<br />
contrast to the former in just about every respect. (And to be reductively<br />
categorical, I'd say Wolfe is more Milton while Lafferty is more *Piers* -<br />
the former 'high' and the latter 'low', both genius and both<br />
all-encompassing and stretching imagination to its limits, each in its<br />
respective way).<br />
<br />
Really torn about what novel to get into next. Thinking of another King<br />
just for simple fun. Maybe Wolfe's *The Sorcerer's House* - that's the<br />
next one up for me in the post-2000 novels I haven't read. Maybe McCarthy,<br />
maybe Michael Bishop, maybe Dan Simmons... I dunno.<br />
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-DOJP<br />
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Antonin Scriabin<br />
<kierkegaurdian@gmail.com>wrote:<br />
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> Hello, Urthlings. What are you reading these days? I haven't been reading<br />
> much Wolfe lately, so nothing is fresh enough in my mind to participate in<br />
> some of the other ongoing discussions.<br />
><br />
> I am working my way through the Harvard Classics. I just finished the<br />
> fourth volume, the complete poems in English by John Milton. *Paradise<br />
> Lost *was a treat, as was Franklin's autobiography in the first volume<br />
> and the *New Atlantis *by Bacon in the third, which is an old favorite of<br />
> mine from my philosophy major days.<br />
><br />
> I've also recently read *The Sea, the Sea *by Iris Murdoch, which was<br />
> excellent, and *The City of Dreaming Books *by Moers, which was great,<br />
> silly fun*.* I also read the first 50 pages of *Lookout Cartridge* by<br />
> McElroy and decided to put it back on the shelf for the time being. It<br />
> wasn't particularly *bad, *it was just entirely unsuccessful in grabbing<br />
> my attention within a reasonable amount of time, together with being<br />
> written in a very disjointed, unique style. I will probably get back to it<br />
> in the near future.<br />
><br />
> Anyway, I am getting back on a Wolfe kick today by finishing the latter<br />
> half of *The Island of Doctor Death, and Other Stories, and Other Stories*.<br />
> Looking forward to it!<br />
><br />
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:03:10 -0400<br />
From: Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian@gmail.com><br />
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"Bolano's 2666 which seems to me at its heart kind of a Twin Peaks urban<br />
fantasy."<br />
<br />
Well, now I kind of want to read it!<br />
<br />
"McElroy has always been one of those authors I feel I should like but in<br />
execution he seems rather boring. At least you have to pay attention when<br />
you read him."<br />
<br />
Have you read *Lookout Cartridge*? I also lucked out and found a copy of *Women<br />
and Men* for $3 a few months ago, I would be willing to try that one if it<br />
is better. I adore Pynchon, Gaddis, and Barth (with whom McElroy is so<br />
often mentioned) so I was surprised to be so turned off right away.<br />
<br />
"Clearly island of doctor death and other stories is Wolfe's best<br />
collection."<br />
<br />
"The Hero as Werewolf" and "Alien Stones" are really outstanding stories.<br />
So far I am enjoying the collection at least as much as *Endangered<br />
Species.*<br />
<br />
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini@yahoo.com> wrote:<br />
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><br />
><br />
> Sent from my iPhone<br />
><br />
> On Mar 12, 2014, at 6:26 AM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian@gmail.com><br />
> wrote:<br />
><br />
> Hello, Urthlings. What are you reading these days? I haven't been reading<br />
> much Wolfe lately, so nothing is fresh enough in my mind to participate in<br />
> some of the other ongoing discussions.<br />
><br />
> I am working my way through the Harvard Classics. I just finished the<br />
> fourth volume, the complete poems in English by John Milton. *Paradise<br />
> Lost *was a treat, as was Franklin's autobiography in the first volume<br />
> and the *New Atlantis *by Bacon in the third, which is an old favorite of<br />
> mine from my philosophy major days.<br />
><br />
> I've also recently read *The Sea, the Sea *by Iris Murdoch, which was<br />
> excellent, and *The City of Dreaming Books *by Moers, which was great,<br />
> silly fun*.* I also read the first 50 pages of *Lookout Cartridge* by<br />
> McElroy and decided to put it back on the shelf for the time being. It<br />
> wasn't particularly *bad, *it was just entirely unsuccessful in grabbing<br />
> my attention within a reasonable amount of time, together with being<br />
> written in a very disjointed, unique style. I will probably get back to it<br />
> in the near future.<br />
><br />
> Anyway, I am getting back on a Wolfe kick today by finishing the latter<br />
> half of *The Island of Doctor Death, and Other Stories, and Other Stories*.<br />
> Looking forward to it!<br />
><br />
> _______________________________________________<br />
><br />
><br />
> Haven't read much lately but in the middle of Musil's Man of No Qualities,<br />
> in about the fifth volume of Sturgeon's collected stories, Mishima's<br />
> Forbidden Colors (Mishima's philosophy always interested me), Bolano's 2666<br />
> which seems to me at its heart kind of a Twin Peaks urban fantasy.<br />
> Surprised it got any literary attention. McElroy has always been one of<br />
> those authors I feel I should like but in execution he seems rather boring.<br />
> At least you have to pay attention when you read him.<br />
><br />
> My Peace write up is "done" but it is missing a connection I know that is<br />
> lurking, between the devils of hell with misplaced limbs who are one with<br />
> their victims and the carnival people and the dog boy whom Weer's father<br />
> will take hunting in a dream and languishes across Weer's leg as he thinks<br />
> of his picnic with Margeret Lorn, so I am waiting on that final edit to<br />
> post it. After that I will be on Forleson. I have not abandoned my<br />
> project but I have to be in the right frame of mind to do quality work on<br />
> it.<br />
><br />
> Clearly island of doctor death and other stories is Wolfe's best<br />
> collection.<br />
><br />
><br />
><br />
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