Comments on: William Gaddis on Hipsters: “An Ill-dressed, Underfed, Overdrunken Group of Squatters with Minds So Highly Developed That They Were Excused from Good Manners”

By: ccllyyddee

ccllyyddee — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:54:57 +0000

All too familiar. The corrosively acerbic tone is fitting.

By: Occupy Gaddis (A William Gaddis Resource Page) | biblioklept

Occupy Gaddis (A William Gaddis Resource Page) | biblioklept — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:05:07 +0000

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By: Biblioklept

Biblioklept — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:11:00 +0000

Lewbasnight, your comment made me chuckle, because it illustrates a weekly occurrence in my own home…

By: lewbasnight

lewbasnight — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:25:04 +0000

I remember that bit. I remember reading it in bed and nudging my bed-mate, “Hey let me read this to you… …Isn’t it great that he nailed it then, and the exact same people are doing the exact same things now?”
“Mm. Yeah, that’s great.”

By: Biblioklept

Biblioklept — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:05:17 +0000

I’m nearing the end of JR; in a scene between Rhoda and Bast in the apartment, Bast says something like, “Why do I have to be interesting? Why does everyone want everybody to be interesting. I want my work to be interesting” (not a direct quote) — reminds me of Otto the uber-poseur, doing anything to be “interesting.”

By: ccllyyddee

ccllyyddee — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:57:43 +0000

hahahaha ha

By: BDR

BDR — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:49:18 +0000

The hipster party scenes in Recognitions are my favorite bits in the novel. Otto with his sling.