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From: Mac Reynolds <reynoldsm001@hawaii.rr.com>
To the waterskimmer here Postmodern is an oxymoron; it's like saying
Postpresent. The moment is now and anything after it has not yet come.
Is John Updike so passe that no one suggested him to the avid reader
looking for other authors besides what he's read? In some ways Updike's
use of language is as brilliant as VN's, but he sadly lacks the humor of
the Master. Try his Rabbit series. Try his "Witches of Eastwick." But
here's what I've found. If an author REALLY GRABS you, you go back and
reread and rereread again and again, always discovering something new,
always enjoying again his or her company. VN and Shakespeare are my
authors. Didn't I discover from Kinbote that the name Shakespeare
probably came from Shalksbore and that the spear shaken was more of a
Curdy Buff endowment rather than an iron point on a shaft?
And that Boscobel. Home of the Gideon Bible in Wisconsin--VN probably
saw plenty of those--or the hunting lodge in England that Charles the II
hid in when the parliamentarians were chasing him before he became
king. Any other Boscobels besides Kinbote's and those mentioned?
Mac Reynolds
To the waterskimmer here Postmodern is an oxymoron; it's like saying
Postpresent. The moment is now and anything after it has not yet come.
Is John Updike so passe that no one suggested him to the avid reader
looking for other authors besides what he's read? In some ways Updike's
use of language is as brilliant as VN's, but he sadly lacks the humor of
the Master. Try his Rabbit series. Try his "Witches of Eastwick." But
here's what I've found. If an author REALLY GRABS you, you go back and
reread and rereread again and again, always discovering something new,
always enjoying again his or her company. VN and Shakespeare are my
authors. Didn't I discover from Kinbote that the name Shakespeare
probably came from Shalksbore and that the spear shaken was more of a
Curdy Buff endowment rather than an iron point on a shaft?
And that Boscobel. Home of the Gideon Bible in Wisconsin--VN probably
saw plenty of those--or the hunting lodge in England that Charles the II
hid in when the parliamentarians were chasing him before he became
king. Any other Boscobels besides Kinbote's and those mentioned?
Mac Reynolds