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Ben Shread-Hewitt's avatar

Lillian you are not helping my effort to look like a normal man™ when this email popped onto my work screen

(fantastic as always tho)

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Lillian Wang Selonick's avatar

I got 2 immediate unsubscribe notifications so I indeed may have gone too hard with the title

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Contarini's avatar

Every time I post anything I get a dip in subscriptions. It usually recovers after a while.

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Lillian Wang Selonick's avatar

I’m not too worried. Gotta separate the boys from the men.

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Lillian Wang Selonick's avatar

Hahahahahaha

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Scott Spires's avatar

You've reminded me how many levels this book has (and I re-read it about a year and a half ago, so it's still somewhat fresh in my mind).

An overall impression is that Bellow is playing throughout the book with the tension between Herzog's high-minded image of himself as a Romantic intellectual and the muck and pettiness of real life that he constantly gets dragged into. At any rate that's one of the things that appeals to me about it.

BTW not sure about this but I think he got the name Moses Herzog from Chapter 12 of "Ulysses," the pub chapter, sometimes known as "Cyclops."

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Lillian Wang Selonick's avatar

Yes, and that tension ends up being so funny! And also so sad!

In theory I am reading Ulysses now, will keep my eyes peeled for the Moses Herzog origin story. (But I’m so sleep deprived from the new puppy, so it’s slow going)

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