Here's my latest piece of writing for the Boston Review, a review of
Christian Bok's new book Eunoia, which I think you'd all get a kick out of:
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.3/stefans.html
– Brian
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Stefans on Eunoia
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In a message dated 7/21/2002 10:50:47 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.3/stefans.html
Indeed, Bok was very careful to make "Eunoia" a work of literary quality =
in a
conventional sense; he denies himself a plethora of avant-garde tactics suc=
h
as parataxis, fragmentation, and visual poetics, that would have made his=
pursuit easier. Every sentence is complete and they all tell a story or
explain an idea. One of the more clever sections is the retelling of the
Iliad from the perspective of Helen:
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What a title for a book, "eunoia" or "beautiful thought." I think Bok migh=
t
be one very important page behind me. I.e. he is competing with me for
published pages, and is therefore a competitive genius! Therefore I say
shall we have a nib-nab.
Ah bragadoccio, can a computer do that. My main thesis for this
thesis-email, which I encourage any students onlist to work into a real
academic graded paper of realtime art-scholarly criticism for financial gai=
n
and degree–I encourage people to use my intellectual property illegally,=
legal shmegal–is a nit I picked that John Barth already wrote the Meneleid=
.
I don't find finding that to be wholly clever old Bok, that other deal,
eunoia. OK.
I might have to take some people on some Boks in the park like say Paul
Revere.
Max Herman
chasshychasshychasshy.net
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