The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas
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4Macumbeira
You write LE Nausée
5LisaCurcio
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
Oh,
7Macumbeira
Post
8Macumbeira
Please
9RickHarsch
Chapter 3
10MeditationesMartini
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.")
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.")
12urania1
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.
14MeditationesMartini
Perhaps you should include a "rules for draw and stud poker" card in the back.
17RickHarsch
17.
18RickHarsch
I'm off the front pages. Who is here? Who wants Chapter 4? Who needs more time?
19Macumbeira
whyhave you jumped to chapter 17 ?
20MeditationesMartini
I HARDLY EVEN KNOW HER!
21MeditationesMartini
But seriously, the colours of whey-->LQUARL or possibly LOL
22RickHarsch
Ch
24Macumbeira
22 huh ? The rules of "poke her"?
27MeditationesMartini
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
Rick WTF ?
29LisaCurcio
Rick--where is everything?