http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/ An unmoderated discussion of the writings of novelist John Barth. Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:16:18 GMT Mark Brawner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3378 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3378 Interview with John Barth: Nov. 12, 2001 City Arts & Lectures and UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library http://fora.tv/2001/11/12/Interview_with_John_Barth Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:15:38 GMT Mark Brawner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3377 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3377 Somehow this Barth essay had escaped my notice until now: "Incremental Perturbation: How to Know Whether You've Got a Plot or Not" -- collected in 'Creating Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:21:54 GMT Josiah Miller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3376 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3376 Pynchon's new novel, in my opinion is fantastic and I believe there is definitely a lot more underneath the surface that constitutes a second read or more.  Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:53:17 GMT Matt Trebelhorn http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3375 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3375 So about an hour after I sent my message on Friday, my wife said to me -- sua sponte -- "after dinner, let's go to the bookstore." So what we did, and I picked Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:55:43 GMT Mark Brawner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3374 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3374 And but also -- incidentally, and not that it rilly matters -- there is no comma after 'Giles' in the book's title, although there is one in the text when Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:02:16 GMT Krzysztof Majer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3373 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3373 Hey everyone, good to see a few new messages! ... I have literally laid hands on Against the Day, and put it on the shelf, but still haven't read it. But I Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:49:56 GMT Matt Trebelhorn http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3372 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3372 No need to apologize. You asked for help with the cite, and I was trying to make sure it was right. Plus it gave me an excuse to re- consider Giles, Goat-Boy Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:38:14 GMT Nicola Leporini http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3371 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3371 Thank you again. ...   Welcome. It's the same for both for both the Doubleday first edition and the Anchor Books paperback. Thank you again. --- On Thu, Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:37:11 GMT Nicola Leporini http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3370 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3370 Yes, you're right. Sorry. ...   But the actual quote is -- somewhat less head-scratchingly -- "Ontogeny recapitulates cosmogeny." Matt Yes, you're right. Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:53:02 GMT Matt Trebelhorn http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3369 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3369 But the actual quote is -- somewhat less head-scratchingly -- "Ontogeny recapitulates cosmogeny." Matt Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:26:43 GMT Mark Brawner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3368 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3368 Welcome. It's the same for both for both the Doubleday first edition and the Anchor Books paperback. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Nicola Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:20:48 GMT Nicola Leporini http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3367 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3367 Thank you very much. Can you tell me the edition as well? N. ...   Page 7 (Volume 1, First Reel, Part 1.) Thank you very much. Can you tell me the edition as Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:15:04 GMT Mark Brawner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3366 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3366 Page 7 (Volume 1, First Reel, Part 1.) On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:04:50 GMT nicola_leporini http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3365 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3365 Hi everybody, can you tell me where exactly in Giles, Goat-Boy is the sentence "ontology recapitulates cosmogeny"? I don't have the book with me but I need the Thu, 28 May 2009 00:53:38 GMT Barbara Schmidt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3364 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/3364 glad you asked.... one of my holiday presents was Michael Dirda's 'Bound to Please.' the gift that keeps on giving. Reminded me a little of the first reading