Sublime

William Gaddis’s The Recognitions,

One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupper-ware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had

William Gass’s novel Omensetter’s Luck.

here, plainly, Updike is more interested in his personal filing-system than in his normal courteousness towards the reader.

Ziggy

Otis

Reg