Re: Reading Phallos (& . . .)

--- In [email protected], "bllsln" <bllsln@...> wrote:
>
> 
> 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
>

I'm going to begin slowly chipping away at Phallos in between breaks 
of other readings I'm currently doing. The concept is interesting, 
I'm curious to see how I'll react to this book. It seems that there 
is an equal number of people on both sides of this books reception.

If anyone is interested in reading this book along with me, let me 
know. 

As for "About Writing" I picked up a copy back in December. It is a 
wonderful volume. 

Best, 

Pete







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