The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas

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The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas

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1RickHarsch
Edited: Oct 29, 2013, 4:16 pm



2Macumbeira
Edited: Oct 22, 2013, 3:53 am

3RickHarsch
Edited: Oct 29, 2013, 4:26 pm

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4Macumbeira
Oct 22, 2013, 6:11 am

You write LE Nausée

5LisaCurcio
Oct 22, 2013, 2:09 pm

I'm here. Not sure I am going to get this one--you know how pedestrian I am. But I will keep reading just because I like the way it all sounds in my head, and maybe I will catch on.

6RickHarsch
Edited: Oct 29, 2013, 4:22 pm

Oh,

7Macumbeira
Oct 22, 2013, 2:45 pm

Post

8Macumbeira
Oct 22, 2013, 2:45 pm

Please

9RickHarsch
Edited: Oct 29, 2013, 4:22 pm

Chapter 3

10MeditationesMartini
Edited: Oct 23, 2013, 3:34 am

Like Lisa, I like the way it sounds in my head. Eddie's kind of a sassy curmudgeon. Small things that I especially liked in a sweetmeats kind of way: coon hands; stroessner goats; the fact that you made me connect futility with utility; "Fuck?"

Some of the presumably more loaded signifying bits were slightly crunchy going. I don't know poker well at all (had to look up the hands to see who won), I don't know keno (it's like bingo?), I've never been to Vegas (wanted to avoid the cliches, but then having never been it's harder to avoid resort to them while reading, which makes me interested to see what you do with that angle).

I am not a careful reader--it took me a minute to find my bearings at "non-coitus interruptus." The frog narrative (I liked that Drake didn't accrue too much narrative oomph to himself with it, like where the cool guy with the story ends up being the guy who wins the hand), besides being picturesquely off-putting, made me think of that pond we stopped at with all the tadpoles and frogpoles underfoot and me trying to distract Bhairavi from the ones we were crushing by pointing at the ones who lived still and her kind of uneasy about the crushed ones which she was maybe only semi-aware of, but less distressed than a grown man I think.

Overall, I'm intrigued. It has a feel that I remember from The Driftless Zone but not from Arjun and the Good Snake--a bit Lynchian, but not that much, certainly less mannered.

(Probably you don't want proofreading, but there is a "mini-bar" and also a "minibar.")

11RickHarsch
Edited: Oct 29, 2013, 4:23 pm

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12urania1
Oct 23, 2013, 8:01 am

La nausée? Le nausée? Really guys. It's Lea Nausée frequently mistaken for Leah Nausicaä, her evil but unrelated twin. Both are minor characters in Rick's novel, characters of whom he has been (until he reads this post) unaware. His unawareness does not negate their presence in his novel. They pop up here and there in the narrative but one has to read between the lines to find them. And one (I am not saying who) is fucking Keno.

13RickHarsch
Edited: Oct 29, 2013, 4:23 pm

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14MeditationesMartini
Oct 23, 2013, 1:55 pm

Perhaps you should include a "rules for draw and stud poker" card in the back.

15RickHarsch
Edited: Oct 29, 2013, 4:24 pm

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16urania1
Oct 23, 2013, 11:44 pm

Footnote the rules. Novels with footnotes are exciting.

17RickHarsch
Edited: Oct 29, 2013, 4:25 pm

17.

18RickHarsch
Oct 25, 2013, 6:21 am

I'm off the front pages. Who is here? Who wants Chapter 4? Who needs more time?

19Macumbeira
Oct 26, 2013, 1:11 am

whyhave you jumped to chapter 17 ?

20MeditationesMartini
Oct 26, 2013, 4:03 am

I HARDLY EVEN KNOW HER!

21MeditationesMartini
Oct 26, 2013, 4:04 am

But seriously, the colours of whey-->LQUARL or possibly LOL

22RickHarsch
Edited: Oct 29, 2013, 4:25 pm

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23RickHarsch
Edited: Oct 29, 2013, 4:26 pm

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24Macumbeira
Oct 26, 2013, 8:02 am

22 huh ? The rules of "poke her"?

25RickHarsch
Edited: Oct 29, 2013, 4:26 pm

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26RickHarsch
Edited: Oct 29, 2013, 4:26 pm

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27MeditationesMartini
Oct 29, 2013, 12:29 am

Me soon! This woman called Judith Roof came up from Texas and assigned us 300 (!) pages of readings for tonight. I guess everything really is bigger ….

28Macumbeira
Oct 30, 2013, 11:08 am

Rick WTF ?

29LisaCurcio
Oct 30, 2013, 5:23 pm

Rick--where is everything?

30RickHarsch
Jul 21, 2019, 6:20 pm

The book will be printed by August by River Boat Books.