[lit-ideas] Re: My Novel -- a head's up.
- From: "Donal McEvoy" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "donalmcevoyuk" for DMARC)
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 21:36:49 +0000 (UTC)
There's the arrest of Gordon Golightly for the murder of Maxine and other
unexpected developments.>
I found Gordon's arrest all too predictable. The cops were heavy-handed from
when they first came in, iirc, on page 34. But now I see you've out-Griced me -
by referring to "other unexpected developments" you could be implicaturing
"other developments that were also unexpected" or "other developments which
were, by contrast, unexpected". Which it is, I know not. Therefore I cannot be
sure that my finding Gordon's arrest all too predictable is any kind of dissent
from your claim that there are "other unexpected developments". I wish I'd
never discovered Grice and implicature. I wish my life were simpler. I wish the
Touro external harddrive 4tb were still available at a reasonable price. I'm
concerned for Gordon too.
DL
From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2016, 19:48
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: My Novel -- a head's up.
Bernie Sanders is my politics. Hillary was second choice.
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sounds pretty interesting, anyhow more interesting than your politics.
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx >
wrote:
Lawrence tries to imagine what my so-called novel might be like. I'm
responding in hope of dispelling any anxieties he might harbor for the future
of American literature. The working title of my masterpiece is Rival Revivals.
The main protagonist, Gordon Golightly is a forty-five year old ordained
Catholic priest who has abandoned the priesthood in search of some meaningful
pursuit. When we meet him he is working as the night dish washer at the All
American Bar and Grill (known affectionately by it's patrons as the AA).
Sharing Gordon's apartment is Jolene Burns whom Gordon rescued from living out
of her car and offered to let her stay in his apartment while she gets back on
her feet -- a no-strings-attached offer even though Gordon is still virginal
but not wanting to be -- still he was a man of principle. He does not go where
he's not invited. Jolene, we learn, had put her husband through Law School
only to have him leave her for a bevy of secretaries once he had hooked up with
a prestigious law firm and started bringing in good money. Jolene had been
raised to believe that she was descended from a long line of Southern
aristocrats (her mother's illusion -- one not so unusual in the South ) and is
thereby burdened with the expectation that she behave aristocratically.
Jolene's life is in free fall when Gordon discovers her sleeping in her car in
the apartment building's parking lot. The AA, where Gordon works, is a
working class restaurant-bar in Overland Circle. The Circle, which was once the
Memphis city limits where the trolley cars turned around, was now a popular
entertainment area with several restaurants, bars, theaters, specialty shops,
etc. One of the most popular clubs for twenty-somethings was Boss Crump's
Barrelhouse, a live music dance club -- their parking lot was gleaned every
morning by Dancing Jimmy in his search for dropped coins, bills, or whatever.
Dancing Jimmy was more or less the mascot of Overland Circle until he found
something that changed history. That, my friends is faint glimpse at the
setting. The action? Well, there's murder and mayhem, there's theft, there's
betrayal, there's love, there's fucking, there's dancing, as well there's the
street closing as two simultaneous outdoor religious revivals battle for
territory in Overland Circle. There's the arrest of Gordon Golightly for the
murder of Maxine and other unexpected developments. It's a hoot and deadly
serious too. You'll either love it or hate it.
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