Incidentally, there are enormous differences among texts in respect to how they come over in audio. Fitzgerald's Iliad comes over superbly. Paradise Lost is reasonably good. But my favorite poem, Paradise Regained simply doesn't come across in audio. I've been trying off and on for 30 years to identify what is the quality in PR which is so powerful: tentatively I think it is the syntax that holds verse paragraphs together. But _paragraphs_ are strictly a print phenomenon. They do not make themselves 'visible' to the listener. Joyce's Ulysses is wonderful in audio; perhaps even better than on the page. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom holds its powers; less so Sound & Fury.
Carrol
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> From: knowknot at mindspring.com [mailto:knowknot at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:39 AM
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> Cc: cbcox at ilstu.edu
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] James Heartfield's Unpatriotic History
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> Angelus Novus wrote:
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> > Carrol [Cox] wrote:
> >
> >> Unfortunately I did not read [Gravity's Rainbow]
> >> enough. I wanted two more readings at the least.
> >
> > Supposedly there was an audiobook done . . . .
>
> 'Gravity's Rainbow' and other of Pynchon's books and also books by the
> other authors mentioned in this thread are available in audio format
> (for free loan) from the Library of Congress' National Library Service
> (NLS) for the blind and physically handicapped re. which information can
> be found at http://www.loc.gov/nls/
>
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