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- From: Cannam@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Chris Cannam)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
- Subject: Small question with a metafictional front end
- Date: 27 Jan 93 12:35:57
- Organization: Konrad Zuse Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin
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- I read some Tom Robbins books shortly after reading some things by
- John Fowles (English novelist), and although there are pretty major
- differences in style (Fowles is more calculating, more `cleverly'
- twisted and less emotional), there are some obvious connections that
- might follow on a bit from the conversation about metafiction that
- appeared here a while back. Both of them appear in their own books
- (TR in Cowgirls, Fowles -- in a more omnipotent and mysterious form --
- in `The French Lieutenant's Woman'); both feature appearances of their
- own books in their stories, generally incidentally. John Fowles has
- `The Magus' being read by a character in `The Ebony Tower'; the
- question is:
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- in which TR book does a character read a TR book?
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- I'm sure it happens somewhere.
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- Following on another old thread, that of favourite other authors and
- musicians, my authors of preference would probably be William Gibson,
- Dostoyevsky and Dorothy Dunnett, and musical thingummijigs would be
- the Sisters of Mercy, New Model Army, Mahler (on a good day), and
- Nielsen's 5th symphony. The problem is, it seems a bit odd to me that
- someone should have William Gibson, the Sisters and Tom Robbins in
- their preferred list. It's a bit like the idea of having a TR
- newsgroup -- an intrusion of technology. Any comments on that?
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- Chris
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- --
- on sighting mathematicians it should unhook the algebra from their
- minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should
- unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra
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