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DeWitt retweeted that, characteristically enough.
― dow, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
was re-reading the v amusing, geneous and insightful piece on pierre michon by wyatt mason in the nyrb, and a phrase at the end struck me cos it seemed so appropriate for The English Understand Wool:
the distilledness of his work, its compression and *the yields of exclusion*
tho as i write that down, i realise again, that it's not quite right – there's not a sense of exclusion, of the sort you might get in evelyn waugh or pg wodehouse dialogue, or indeed in michon. in TEUW it's more a sort of *exactness*.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 1 September 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
three weeks pass...
i think i won't answer that, partly because it's so incredibly short, that you can answer both those questions after something less than an hour of reading, partly because it's so well put together that to add my summary information... i don't think there's enough words for my view to dilute into without affecting the effect!
nice interview in berlin here (nothing on The English Understand Wool though).
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
i'm not sure it's exactly an HDW concern as such, or rather it's much more ludic with HDW. systems as a quite humanistic, serious and ethical *game*.
Right, the sense of play (& Ludo the creation of Sybill/"Sybill" and their creator HDW): the serious comedy of this single parent (meeting up again with the woman she says saved her life, mentioning other people who have helped her in bad times, o and how she got to be a single parent) margin rider, individualist connected to her peculiar (but somewhat oblique-stroke familiar to me) family tradition and to the academy she's outside of, also a creative spirit, with life as her environmental art, and if there's "creative misprision" in some of that, also a tour de force re something good or powerfully developmental (life or lifelike) coming from what seems like a bad idea and/or is based on misunderstanding, getting the facts wrong (if for inst Pynchon is xpost right about Weiner getting human cognition wrong, and also he says in his intro to
Slow Learner that he found out after writing a lot of his early fiction with entrophy as a central theme, that he'd misunderstood the original concept of entrophy---but he and Weiner ran with what they had, ready or not, here they come, likewise Sybilla and Ludo and others)/
― dow, Thursday, 29 September 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
one month passes...
i enjoyed the novella but the cover is incredibly hideous in design and also in feel (feels like some weird cheap kids book). the design is so ugly that maybe it's good. not sure.
― na (NA), Friday, 11 November 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link