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Carl
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More Coover-ian stuff: the wild cataloguing of flying objects—an urban litany, Whitman but sped up into the 20th century—blitzed out in polysyndetons and asyndetons and juxtaposition. Even the sexual images (Coover’s would have been humans, not a Brueghel painting) and the news. Such an astonishing capturing of intensity, of “a memory with protective power” (58).
— Nov 16, 2025 02:45PM
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Carl
is on page 233 of 827
Hyperlinks: I wonder if DeLillo styled this 1996 novel on the then-relatively new (first visual web browser was 1994, right?) idea of hyperlinking. Each character kicks off a new one, kind of a book version of the proverbial internet rabbit-hole.
— Dec 20, 2025 05:35PM
Carl
is on page 39 of 827
Hugely evocative and energetic, making me think of Coover: the references to the Dodgers’ and Giants’ origins (Superbas and Bridegrooms) carries a flag reminiscent of the wildly underappreciated The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop., while the congregation of world events in the opening chapter smacks of the Uncle Sam chapters of the similarly under-recognized The Public Burning.
— Nov 15, 2025 10:00PM
Carl
is on page 280 of 827
Connections, connections, connections -- the bane (and wealth?) of the postmodern world!
— Feb 18, 2009 06:53PM
Carl
is on page 80 of 827
Loving it. Wish I had more time for pleasure-reading...
— Feb 07, 2009 05:49PM
