I recently stumbled across this disturbing article:
No explanation for mystery gas cloud Things are back to normal in Kittery, after a mysterious cloud of gas floated over the city Monday morning, causing several stores and the town's high school to be evacuated..( more )
I wonder, what were the whereabouts of female impersonator and third-rate journalist Garance Franke-Ruta on the day in question? In a recent item published on the webpage of little read magazine The American Prospect , Mr. Franke-Ruta, clearly suffering from envy, has taken it upon himself to attack the brilliant Steve Sailer because Sailer was quoted in the New York Times (apparently no one at the New York Times will take notice of the journalism of poor Mr. Garance Franke-Ruta, despite his pretending to be a woman). But the attack is nothing more than an odorous gas cloud. Mr. Franke-Ruta's accuses the New York Times of being "shoddy" for mentioning Sailer, and calls Sailer's opinio...
I'd always thought I was pretty highbrow until I started reading, or at least started trying to read, the works of Wyndham Lewis. His novels are almost as difficult to read as his essays. What a Monstre!
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any of his novels. Should I?
ReplyDeleteI ran across Time and Western Man at a used bookstore and started randomly reading a few pages of his critique of Joyce and decided I had to read the whole thing. He has all these clearheaded perceptions, but tied together with sort of loony energy. The book also is a reminder of how the 20th century was already over before WWII even started.
"Blasting and Bombardeering" - his record of serving in the trenches in WW1 - is a good read since it isn't quite so mind-numbingly intellectual as his other works. Also, the trilogy of novels featuring the book I alluded to in my first comment - "Monstre Gai" - is reasonably readable.
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