Hearing and Dreams Both Fading . . . Michiko Kakutani on David Lodge's newest foray into the foibles and fixations surrounding a terminal case of "academesiosis." 'Nuff unsaid.
Yeah, I saw it and thought; Man-oh-manqué, J: U iz jes' a povert poet, critic, biographer, singer-songwriter, musician, and Scrabble™ Champ (oh, okay, bess confess to Limbo Bimbo as well); who iz U to question the Great Queen Kakutani and U iz already feeling kinda shrivelled because of all the lousy newzes; and, so?
I was being good and trying NOT to make any snark-remarks, right? Last time I trust me to do right by or be good for me :) . . .
"He has written a novel that not only hits the bright comic notes of his best earlier fiction but also deftly downshifts to play the darker, more minor scales as well."
Downshifting? On what? The musical flychair? C'mon. That's motormouthing / bassline, hook, stinkerstuff, not to put too fine a hook (sowwy) on it; but, you're absolutely astutely right, Frank!
She ought to have writ sumpin' along the lines of "masterfully descends to noodle around among the lower registers where those inevitably darker undertones dominate the score (or so, just off the top of my crop)?
Good call / lousy editorial catch; and, hrm, even the mighty flighty Michie can have a bad flip, hehe . . .
I wonder about that closing reference to "darker, more minor scales." Scales cannot be more or less minor. They are either minor or major.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I saw it and thought; Man-oh-manqué, J: U iz jes' a povert poet, critic, biographer, singer-songwriter, musician, and Scrabble™ Champ (oh, okay, bess confess to Limbo Bimbo as well); who iz U to question the Great Queen Kakutani and U iz already feeling kinda shrivelled because of all the lousy newzes; and, so?
ReplyDeleteI was being good and trying NOT to make any snark-remarks, right? Last time I trust me to do right by or be good for me :) . . .
"He has written a novel that not only hits the bright comic notes of his best earlier fiction but also deftly downshifts to play the darker, more minor scales as well."
Downshifting? On what? The musical flychair? C'mon. That's motormouthing / bassline, hook, stinkerstuff, not to put too fine a hook (sowwy) on it; but, you're absolutely astutely right, Frank!
She ought to have writ sumpin' along the lines of "masterfully descends to noodle around among the lower registers where those inevitably darker undertones dominate the score (or so, just off the top of my crop)?
Good call / lousy editorial catch; and, hrm, even the mighty flighty Michie can have a bad flip, hehe . . .
(Well, she deserves a mixed gymnasty metaphor!)