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We’re hooked on David Markson. Specifically on his novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress. (WM). Think in the Morning discovered David Markson though his brilliant study of Malcolm Lowry’s Under The Volcano. Neither Lowry nor Markson are for the casual reader yet both are accessible to anyone who is willing to put in a little time. Even a casual reading without tracing all the hidden meanings can be enjoyable. It was for us on our initial dive. David Foster Wallace (DFW) wrote the definitive review of WM. It’s included as an afterword in the newer printings of the novel. This is what Wallace has to say: Mr. Markson has in this book succeeded already on all the really important levels of fictional conviction. He has fleshed the abstract sketches of Wittgensteinian doctrine into the concrete theater of human loneliness. In so doing he’s captured far better than pseudobiography what made Wittgenstein a tragic figure & a victim of the very diffracted modernity he helped inaugurate. Markson has writ

Random Thoughts on David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress by Think In The Morning | Aug 25, 2022 | More | 4 comments Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown Those who know do not tell, Those who tell do not know. Lao Tzu George Santayana, reading Moby Dick: In spite of much skipping, I have got stuck in the middle. David Markson, This Is Not A Novel We’re hooked on David Markson. Specifically on his novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress . ( WM ). Think in the Morning discovered David Markson though his brilliant study of Malcolm Lowry’s Under The Volcano . Neither Lowry nor Markson are for the

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