Modernism continues (long and sort of boring)

Jim Henley · 26 Oct 1999, 22:30 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: "Jim Henley" <jlhenley at erols.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) Modernism continues (long and sort of boring)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:30:46
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: urth-errors at lists.best.com [mailto:urth-errors at lists.best.com]On
> Behalf Of Alice Turner
>
> When I was quite young, the hot modernist book was -The
> Recognitions- by Wm
> Gaddis, which, thank goodness, I did not attempt to read at the
> time.

I started _JR_ [another Gaddis book - ed.] about 10 years ago on vacation.
I figured, as I usually do, I will read until my interest flags, then I
will stop at the next chapter or section break. About 100 pages in, I
thought to check - no, there were no chapter or section breaks in the
entire book. Fuck this, I thought, and never picked it up again.

Best,


Jim
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