Reading Phallos (& . . .)

There's no accounting for taste. Given the fact the *Phallos* is a
synopsis, I find the characters remarkably well drawn, and the
situations extremely vivid. For me, it's a story that gets richer and
richer as it moves on, so that I find the last third the most
interesting (not to mention moving), and the first third the least.
But without the first third, the last wouldn't mean anything at all .
. . so it all works together. I think Phallos does, in the novel, the
kind of "alienation" that the German Playwrite Bertold Brecht wanted
to achieve in the theater--and, for this reader, achieves it very
effectively. 

As far as *About Writing* is concerned, I just checked at the St.
Marks Books Shoppe down on the Lower East Side, and they say they've
sold 42 copies since they first got it in in November. And checking on
the copy right page--I dodn;t know why I do that, but you can learn a
lot about books that way--I see that the book has alreayd gone tinto
at least two printings. So I guess it's doing pretty well.

Best--
--Bill









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