tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post3439518932900719763..comments2024-03-25T14:36:16.797-04:00Comments on The Crime Writers' Chronicle: My Torrid Weekend with Charlie MansonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post-30346408825210074402013-08-19T07:55:43.736-04:002013-08-19T07:55:43.736-04:00Ian Watt! I haven't thought of him since grad ...Ian Watt! I haven't thought of him since grad school. My getting a Master's Degree in English depended on my knowledge of "Gulliver's Travels" and "The Wasteland." I believe I had to read something Professor Watt wrote on Swift. See, you not only had to know the work under study, but also the critical history (known otherwise as "persiflagenous twaddle."). Here's hoping you hit a thousand, Bob!<br />And, no, there is no such thing as persiflagenous twaddle. There is persiflage and there is twaddle, but it took yours truly to put the two together<br />StephAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post-23041311233303175382013-08-18T23:46:38.133-04:002013-08-18T23:46:38.133-04:00I'm wandering in a desert among so many oases,...I'm wandering in a desert among so many oases, Steph, that I rush hither and thither hoping to find the right book--- from the latest translations of Kafka, including the 2-volume biography by Reiner Stach, to critical appreciations of Joseph Conrad (the best being 'Conrad in the Nineteenth Century' by Ian Watt). Yet, I find time to finish 'Shut Your Eyes Tight' by detective novelist John Verdon. (You're right, Thelma, he's very good.)...and to count my books. I'm up to 617 not counting paperbacks, with half-a-wall to go. i feel confident that I can break a thousand. Hooray!!!robert knightlyhttp://robertknightly.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7794927480752850942.post-27287658006324688672013-08-18T19:05:48.523-04:002013-08-18T19:05:48.523-04:00Steph, I have avoided Gone Girl... to date... but ...Steph, I have avoided Gone Girl... to date... but when I saw its place in the NYT today -- I thought... ye gods, I ought to read it.. any suggestions from my CWC colleagues? I'm open to advice... tjsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com