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JAMESBJOHNSON
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God knows I tried.
Both wrote sublime prose, but their books are larded with too much inane loitering.
I closed the covers on all of them I was reading when I collided with a wedding present list in one of the popular O'Hara novels. The list was detailed and long. Too much. It reminded me nuthin much happened for 50 pages of the Faulkner book, so I closed them all and switched to a David Goodis read. Relief.
I knew the Faulkner book was a problem. Every publisher rejected it until one bought it with the condition that he intended to cut 40,000 works out of it. I now know why. Sloths move faster. Yet it opened with wonderful activity.
James Agee was the only writer I know of competent to include sermons and navel gazing. His are sublime and inspiring. He never said love niggers cause it makes Jesus happy, he exposed the black soul so the readers natural response is to be tender and care. Character flaws seem to be like physical flaws. Few writers have that gift. His sermons are like medical lectures.
Both wrote sublime prose, but their books are larded with too much inane loitering.
I closed the covers on all of them I was reading when I collided with a wedding present list in one of the popular O'Hara novels. The list was detailed and long. Too much. It reminded me nuthin much happened for 50 pages of the Faulkner book, so I closed them all and switched to a David Goodis read. Relief.
I knew the Faulkner book was a problem. Every publisher rejected it until one bought it with the condition that he intended to cut 40,000 works out of it. I now know why. Sloths move faster. Yet it opened with wonderful activity.
James Agee was the only writer I know of competent to include sermons and navel gazing. His are sublime and inspiring. He never said love niggers cause it makes Jesus happy, he exposed the black soul so the readers natural response is to be tender and care. Character flaws seem to be like physical flaws. Few writers have that gift. His sermons are like medical lectures.
