From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #296 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, November 22 2009 Volume 17 : Number 296 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Was that it? [James Dignan ] Re: For Lep: early DFW [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:22:07 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Was that it? >Catching up on some missed ones from the decade. Me too - I've recently been listening to: Red Snapper - Our aim is to satisfy Jurassic 5 - Power in numbers Doves - The last broadcast Mars Volta - Deloused in the comatorium However, the thing which has been on highest rotate lately is a new album by a band I hadn't heard of before - Union, by The Boxer Rebellion. Lovely, lovely, lovely. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:20:00 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: For Lep: early DFW On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM, lep wrote: > Jeremy says: > > http://paulhabeeb.com/d/the_planet_trillaphon.pdf -- story about > > antidepressants from his Junior year. Vonnegut's influence is glaringly > > obvious -- is this true of his later work as well? I haven't noticed it. > I see what you mean...but I think the tone is very different - unsurprising since DFW at the time was only 21. I think it's the way both writers take everyday speech & idioms and sculpt them into unsuspected forms. Some of his later quirks are there already - although more annoyingly, such as that chirpy exaggeration of number, which I don't remember encountering specifically in his mature work but seems related somehow to...not sure what. > > what i most noticed about the piece was that, after i finished it, i > no longer wondered why he killed himself. this is someone who knew > way too much about major depression. > Yeah. I wonder if people reading it at the time (which I suppose was likely limited to the folks in Amherst's creative-writing universe) read it as fiction or what. I mean, Lauren's right: it pretty clearly is quite close to his actual life, with the veneer of fictionalization being either quite thin or glaringly obvious (the names, say). But reading this, I'm just thankful he was able to stick around long enough to write what he did. But along the lines of his description: unfortunately, humans with defective brain chemistry aren't always blessed with a defect so pervasive that it prevents them from knowing they have a defective brain. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #296 ********************************