PS [to The ellaboration about the artist...developped by
... in which the confusion of intoxication is rendered by words
...And double tapers on the
table dance...] I must have been carried away by verbal
vapours while spelling.
Sorry (although "repeteating"in another posting
was almost amusing).
J.Twiggs:"A passage that
you and I seem to agree is less than first rate is the one that Gary Lipon
quoted a few days ago and that Jansy mentions this morning as smacking of Rupert
Brooke....to me the passage is good and bad in about the same way a Norman
Rockwell painting is both good and bad...it would be right at home on a Hallmark
card. It all but oozes sincerity, doesn't it?" ..." the
novel is much more radical (more Nabokovian, you might say) than it would be if
Shade were the rock that many readers take him to
be..."
JM: I wasn't judging the
qualities of the lines but, at that moment, the spark of sincerity in that most
provincial of poets. However, Shade is neither rock nor rockwell (
btw: how did VN's comparison bt. Dali and Rockwell
go?)
I think it was Jerry Friedman who questioned
"oozy footstep" as a cruel assessment of Robert Frost by
Shade/VN. I wonder if it was intentional (the ooze was needed to
build up towards Hazel's swamp, as an image of dark
greasy snow...)