Posted on 09/12/2019 2:16:55 PM PDT by Borges
“It is,” the editor of the London Sunday Express had written nine years earlier, sounding like H.P. Lovecraft describing Necronomicon:
the most infamously obscene book in ancient or modern literature….All the secret sewers of vice are canalized in its flood of unimaginable thoughts, images and pornographic words. And its unclean lunacies are larded with appalling and revolting blasphemies directed against the Christian religion and against the name of Christ—blasphemies hitherto associated with the most degraded orgies of Satanism and the Black Mass.
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I read this a few days ago. Nice article.
Chabon does a good job. I don’t know how spinny the article is, though.
It’s fun because it’s the same Bennet Cerf who was in To Tell the Truth and put out kid joke books.
I’d also read Chabon’s earlier article on Finnegans Wake and thought it was good.
Chabon seems to be a good writer,Nat least if these type if essays. I never read any if his novels. I read many of the pieces in Maps and Legends, which is a collection of pieces like this one. I got that book because I wanted to read his story Golems I have known.
There’s a recent entire book on this subject regarding Ulysses publication in the US.
Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton
First thing that came to mind.
We must be getting old.
:-)
That looks like Thanksgiving with the left-wing relatives.
lol
They’d read it. You just have to send it by text message.
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