tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post6954345694197252901..comments2024-03-03T13:55:46.243-08:00Comments on Ambling Along the Aqueduct: A Brief Conversation with Nisi ShawlTimmi Duchamphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00673465487533328661noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-85184656796630726512007-05-08T17:59:00.000-07:002007-05-08T17:59:00.000-07:00Thanks, josh for clarifying what I actually read i...Thanks, josh for clarifying what I actually read in *V.* And kahnee, glad you liked the backstory.<BR/><BR/>Kelley, good to hear from you but I'm a little puzzled about who (in your reading of the story) is trying to break free from the insider culture. The supplicant wants to go further up and further in--in the version I intended to write, anyway. But now I wanna know what *you* saw.Nisi Shawlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08006732260486144926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-35917642752541701662007-05-08T15:28:00.000-07:002007-05-08T15:28:00.000-07:00Nisi,Interesting back story for your story. Thank...Nisi,<BR/><BR/>Interesting back story for your story. Thanks for sharing.Constance Burrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10189972439677904578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-23684513768749504042007-05-06T20:48:00.000-07:002007-05-06T20:48:00.000-07:00Nisi, I very much enjoyed the ambiguity of the sto...Nisi, I very much enjoyed the ambiguity of the story, the sense of soft ground underfoot. And the mood of the club, the sense of "insider culture" you created, as well as the yearning to break free of that. At least that's what I got from it. <BR/><BR/>I believe the heart of all good story is yearning. We want, we want -- and what we will do, or say, or suffer in order to get is a huge part of what we tell stories for. I enjoyed your story for that.<BR/><BR/>And how nice of you both to be so complimentary about "Salome"! I appreciate it.<BR/><BR/>Kelley EskridgeKelley Eskridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12685456921661488739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5360814020056871156.post-13454123275673665712007-05-06T19:01:00.000-07:002007-05-06T19:01:00.000-07:00In V., the European Paola sets up a second life as...In <I>V.</I>, the European Paola sets up a second life as "a Negro girl named Ruby" so she can safely have a relationship with a thinly-disguised Ornette Coleman. Pynchon's editor at Viking had urged him to drop the musician, lest he make <I>V.</I> a "protest novel" by including "a Negro." That's what 1963 was like: evidently, the editor did not notice that there was a <I>lot</I> of race in <I>V.</I>, from Esther's nose job (another form of passing) to the Herero massacre, which occurs in the novel's longest chapter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com