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Posts Tagged ‘A Temple of Texts’

For Your Consideration IV – Gass/Stein/Music

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on May 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »

“Why hadn’t I known long before reading Stein–was I such a dunce?–that the art was in the music–it was Joyce’s music, it was James’s music, it was Faulkner’s music; without the music, words fell to earth in prosy pieces; without the music, there was only comprehension, and comprehension may have been analysis, may have been [...]

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Reader Rage, Henry James Hate

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 31, 2011 | 17 Comments »

To start, we have two simmering, searing proclamations: In A Temple of Texts, William Gass quoted Arnold Bennett’s book, Literary Taste: …your taste has to pass before the bar of the classics. That is the point, if you differ with a classic, it is you who are wrong, and not the book. (6) In the [...]

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For Your Consideration

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on February 25, 2011 | 30 Comments »

Reading William H. Gass has set my mind to fire. In the essay “The Sentence Seeks Its Form”  from A Temple of Texts, Gass speaks of breath as giving life to language: Breath (pneuma) has always been seen as a sign of life, and was once identified with the soul. Don’t fall for phrases like [...]

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