/wgg/ - William Gass General

Not to mention the fact that Koh keeps ranting after they've gone, senilely, defiantly, almost mock-heroically, talking to himself while poor incontinent Hershey sits there pissing himself...

These. And chapters like "Do Rivers," and "The First Winter of My Married Life" redeem every page of pure cynicism and negativity in the book, every one of which is still pretty good, by the way.

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Thanks a lot for the encouragement. I'm reading Fagles's introduction to the Orestia (after having read the plays), then I'm on to Sophocles for the Theban trilogy because I want a bit of variety and I want to get the basics under my belt first, then probably back for the rest of Aeschylus's plays because I love this. Or do you think I should read Seven Against Thebes before the Oedipus plays, being about Thebes and all? Anyway, I don't want to derail the thread too much.