[ExI] John C. Wright Interview
Damien Broderick
thespike at satx.rr.com
Sat Jan 26 02:53:41 UTC 2008
At 06:44 PM 1/25/2008 -0800, Jef wrote:
> > It's so *obviously* gibberish that I'm not sure if you're
> > joking (because of the way you put it, here). I get waves
> > of spam that looks like that.
>
>On the contrary, it's very coherent on one or more levels above the
>superficial.
And bear in mind that it's a pioneering attempt to register the
churning thoughts and pre-thoughts of a fairly uneducated but
ebullient woman in Dublin around the start of the 20th century.
And the rest of the novel isn't all like that (phew!) but adopts and
appropriates a number of different styles and voices.
Damien Broderick
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