re: hunting hat
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:27:08 -0500
> _Underworld_ by Don Dellilo...
Yes ... it comes across quite well, too!
> something Irving Howe once wrote about about JDS being "finely attuned to
> the vibrations of the American Zeitgeist, so that one thinks of him as
> both innovator and recorder of a new mode of feeling, a new style of
> expression, characteristic of the postwar years." Sometimes I wonder fi
> JDS read the howe quote and said to himself, "but I'm really much more
> Ray Ford to be very savvy about such zeitgeists..."
Well, we know how Buddy feels about Zeitgeists ... he nearly chainsawed his
foot when asked by some earnest young literary fellow about the modern
American Zeitgeist. In "Seymour," I think, but as usual, I don't have the
text with me....
--tim