--- Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Melville, quite a bit later, is doing something
> rather different, tho both
> are among other things reactions to the Industrial
> Revolution city. And Pym
> is unique.
Yeah, "alienation" (to be glib). And I really ought
to read Pym. (Which I haven't. Yet.)
Disjunction? Dislocation?
> I'm not sure what the whole thing is. Do you mean
> that the Poe story is
> somehow like Notes from the Underground? Do you feel
> like elucidating?
Yes and no. I did pretty specifically have Notes from
Underground [not a text I really go a bundle on] in
mind when I wrote my previous post. (Nice not to have
to explain.)
But a problem I have is that "Bartleby" is
imaginatively and artistically a class apart from Poe
and Lovecraft, so it's a bit apples and oranges.
Nevertheless (as I think as of now) there *is* a
common ground between Poe's Man in the Crowd,
Lovecraft's naive
there-are-things-man-[sic!]-is-not-meant-to-know,
Melville's naive Yankee narrator in "Benito Cereno",
Hogg in Memoirs&Confessions (and beyond that Stevenson
in Jekyl and Hyde). Dostoevsky. Thomson's "City of
Dreadfull Night" ...
Stuff like that.
Sorry, it's late, and my head is a bit mushed. I think
I kinda sorta know what I mean. Sense. But I can't
quite articulate it at this precise moment.
Sorreeee ... <g>
> hallucinating? hibernating?
Not everything in black and white makes sense.
Da Dormouse.
> At 11:04 AM 11/13/2005, you wrote:
> >--- Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Robin: Most of Poe has aged badly (prose as well
> as
> > > his insufferable
> > > poetry), but there are the odd pieces like "The
> Man
> > > of Crowds" that remain
> > > essential, and his one, very early, novel, A.
> Gordon
> > > Pym, is simply
> > > astonishing.
> > >
> > > Mark
> >
> >K -- and "William Wilson" (the doppleganger theme,
> >which naturally appeals to a Scot). But the Man in
> >the Crowd was done better by Melville in Bartleby
> (and
> >the whole thing in Poe is Dostoevsky and water).
> >
> >What else? Usher? Dear god, geeuz a break ...
> >
> > <g>
> >
> >A Prejudiced Rodent (who is still not officially
> back
> >here yet).
>
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