Re: Buddy's Four Virgils
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:36:19 -0700
Sonny,
Thanks for the endorsement of Soren K. Confess I have never read him. Will
one day.
Of the other three Virgils, I already have spoken up for Kafka. But would
like to recommend--highly--"The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh", in
three volumes. Am sure Buddy/JDS has dipped into those remarkable,
almost-heart-breaking-beyond-words letters more than once.
--Bruce
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From: Sundeep Dougal <holden@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 2:37 AM
Subject: Re: Buddy's Four Virgils
>> Following this lead, I have been dipping into Kafka's Diaries. I
>would like
>> to post a couple--in beaverboard style--and be off.
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>The lead on Kierkegaard is liable to be equally fruitful, what
>with shared childhood affluence, interest in theology, salvation of
>the souls and such, reclusivity in later years, fighting the sheer
>'negative conspiracy' of cruel satirization and so on.
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>ANd then there is the shared (at least with Seymour) belief about
>considering oneself erotic to an extraordinary degree...his sudden
>awakeness to God's nearness in an experience of 'indescribable joy'
>and so forth. So there, if you want, is another inspiration for St.
>Suicidee, as I have postulated before.
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>And there might be hope too, then, that there would be published
>pseudonymous writings. (Among some of Kierkegaard's pen-names: Victor
>Eremetus, Johannes de Santio, Constantin Constantius, Johann Climacus,
>and my very favourite, Anti-Climacus.
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>Sonny
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>("My _real_ name is Major George Fielding Anti-Climax" - Buddy Glass)
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