[lit-ideas] Re: portraits of angry Jesus

Eric,
Where's the rest of it?
Carol
_______

It's mouldering in my desk drawer. Strange how old writing looks so 
alien, all the weird word choices and stratagems, stuff you'd do 
differently eight years later, things you thought were cute at the time 
but now seem labored. "Fusby Puppyshins," for example is the NYT art 
critic. What was I thinking? Why did I even post that scene yesterday?

The novel is set in NY in the late '80s, during the "Art Market Crash," 
and covers a week. I used days of the week instead of chapters--Friday 
through Friday.

One of the themes--you know, those guiding principles you discover after 
you finish writing the thing--is that failures of imagination are 
failures of love. There's a Taoist rocker who burns little verses on a 
rooftop, but can't concentrate long enough to complete the visualization 
of the Seven Stars. There's an angry Baptist minister who does a 
disastrous job of rape counseling. Jesus is also a supporting character 
in the story and shows up late on Thursday night, more to reprimand the 
reader than anything else.

Onward,
Eric



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