January 6th, 2010 / 6:06 pm
Craft Notes
Jimmy Chen
Craft Notes
A tail of two books, are there others?
aims to celebrate and mimic the cyclical continuum of both Finnegan’s Wake, its first line being riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay and last line A way a lone a last a loved along the (duh — “along the riverrun,” pay attention) and the first and last lines of Pale Fire, Nabokov’s novel named after a “fictional” poem by John Shade: (first) I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/ By the false azure in the windowpane and (last) Some neighbor’s gardener, I guess — goes by/ Trundling an empty barrow up the lane wherein the lines are composed to predetermine the first in a never ending fateful loop like this post
Tags: finnegans wake, pale fire
Isn’t the ending of Gravity’s Rainbow cyclical or something? I don’t remember.
Isn’t the ending of Gravity’s Rainbow cyclical or something? I don’t remember.
I just did that.
I just did that.
Mind boggling, Jimmy, just great.
Do you include the preface and notes as part of the novel which is Pale Fire? Obviously here you don’t, but in general how do we read that? I read it straight through at first, then just the poem, making constant reference to the notes.
Mind boggling, Jimmy, just great.
Do you include the preface and notes as part of the novel which is Pale Fire? Obviously here you don’t, but in general how do we read that? I read it straight through at first, then just the poem, making constant reference to the notes.
Thanks Adam. I read (present tense) Pale Fire (the novel) as the entity with all its self-induced disparate parts: the “fake” forward, poem, commentary, and index. This book was mind-blowing, because of Nabokov’s use of facetious authority.
mmm…don’t recall, but i was pretty confused by the end…
Thanks Adam. I read (present tense) Pale Fire (the novel) as the entity with all its self-induced disparate parts: the “fake” forward, poem, commentary, and index. This book was mind-blowing, because of Nabokov’s use of facetious authority.
mmm…don’t recall, but i was pretty confused by the end…
Dhalgren.
begins “to wound the autumnal city”
ends “I have come”
Dhalgren.
begins “to wound the autumnal city”
ends “I have come”
Yep. Dhalgren. Which Delany has pointed out outsold Gravity’s Rainbow’s Bantam mass market paperback edition back in the ’70s.
Yep. Dhalgren. Which Delany has pointed out outsold Gravity’s Rainbow’s Bantam mass market paperback edition back in the ’70s.
You’d think he’d be smarter than that.
You’d think he’d be smarter than that.
what about ones that are less apparently circular? i think a lot of books feel like they could repeat over and over.
what about ones that are less apparently circular? i think a lot of books feel like they could repeat over and over.
baby leg
baby leg
Autobestiality: http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/i_am_the_walrus_extremely_nsfw/
Autobestiality: http://www.dangerousminds.net/index.php/site/comments/i_am_the_walrus_extremely_nsfw/
I think it ends with the naked blond slave-ish boy inside the firing rocket.
I think it ends with the naked blond slave-ish boy inside the firing rocket.
There’s the opening story in Barth’s Lost in The Fun House. Super explicit, that one.
There’s the opening story in Barth’s Lost in The Fun House. Super explicit, that one.
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