Surrender

I represent the outsider & the aesthete. Faulkner geographically expanded literature from the North, &, truly, the categories aren't pure--artists, culture, knowledge, humanity is a combination of geography & intellect, but Catcher/Rye, Augie March, Invisible Man, & Recognitions

divide American literature into separate strands, again acknowledging that the categories aren't pure, but, 3 books are by ethnic minorities, outsiders, underprivileged, and, with Catcher, that state--of minority--is captured incredibly cleverly--Bellow ain't inartistic.🥷🦸.🥷🧕

Bellow unifies, arguably, the social & intellectual values of fiction the same as Faulkner: poetic, informed, B is basically a modernist with Jewish characters, which is to say a modernist: Catcher is narrated by an adolescent, but, that reflects the Jewish experience, by the yin

Adolescents are outsiders, &, they're not modernists, not educated, not Augie: March & Holden Caulfield represent the 2 strategies of the outsider/immigrant/underdog: adopt majoritarianism with a tweak, or, center diversity; the title, Catcher/Rye, precisely accomplishes that

Robert Browning, poet, is a symbol, in Catcher, for the majority: if a body meet a body comin through the rye, which Caulfield misremembers as, if a body catch a body comin through the rye. That difference, tweak, is the only aspect of modernism that Salinger acknowledges, but

he acknowledges with the title--Catcher/Rye is unsurpassable as art, with the bonus advantage, like Jeff Koons, of being accessible to adolescents, to outsiders, an achievement that shouldn't diminish the art.🥷🧕!🩸🧕.🩸🌎Yojimbo is a little depressing🥷yes you🥷?yes you yojimbo

The Magnificent Seven is related to Seven Samurai, but isn't a remake, and is good through fealty, and incoherent otherwise--7S, I've remarked, from the idea of the poor being abused, moves to the solution of justice--which can't mean prostitution. 7S has prostitution, or women,

as a theme, and maintains the theme for 3 1/2 hours, almost to the last image of the movie, a pinnacle of cinema; Mag7 imitates S7 with the characters, indelible characters, but improvises on a masterpiece, remakes The Godfather, not a plan.🥷🕊️o heavens🥷🐥ha🥷🪿.🪿.🥷🪿.🪿.🥷🦅

The Purple Bird doesn't work--country music is probably a genre I appreciate from childhood, & Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You & I Made A Place are albums that I think honor the genre, but, Bonnie "Prince" Billy goes from good to bad, &, PB isn't good.🥷🦅.🐟.🐇.🐟.🐇!🫐.🫐?🐻🫐

🥷🦅!🫐😋.🐇😋!🐇⛹️‍♂️.🦅⛹️‍♂️.🫐⛲️.🐇⛲️!👅💦⛩️Einstein's Beets is about food dislikes, & is 800 pages long. Alexander Theroux may, I think, channel intelligence effectively better than anybody on 🌎--better than anybody in English literature, by degrees, if vocabulary is the measure

Joshua Cohen knows the dictionary, DFW did--Theroux knows words that aren't in the dictionary, constantly, and they're used naturally, agathokakologically--vocabulary isn't a sign of intelligence. Differences in vocabulary, ease, is a sign of intelligence.⛲️🌱.🌱🌿.🌿☘️.☘️🍀.🤫

If, though, Theroux is the smartest person alive, which he is approximately, he isn't, therefore, moral--intelligence isn't moral. & intelligence is useful. & waste is bad. But intelligence ain't morality. But intelligence delineates waste, waste/bad, intelligence/disassociated

Theroux is cruel, he is scornful, but, Laura Warholic mocks everything. Much of the mockery is stupid enough to understand as a mockery of mockery. But I realize that what I understood, before, as mockery of mockery, isn't, actually, typical. Which is backwards,I'm getting dumber

800 pages of food phobias, is the premise of Einstein's Beets, presumably. I dislike avocados, mayonnaise, coconuts, & pecans--nobody likes pecans. Nobody likes pine needles. 800 pages of food phobia! Who knows that much about trivia? Theroux? Well, maybe--Einstein's Beets begins

100 pages afterwards, Theroux writes that an actress, by way of food idiosyncracies, would, daily, drink a cup of her urine! 1 page later, Jews, according to Theroux, are prohibited, in the Bible, from drinking & swallowing simultaneously! Which, d & s, to prohibit, is hilarious

But both passages, about the actress & the prohibition, are fraudulent, which changes Einstein's Beets--it isn't a book about food phobia, it's a book about the truth, and about humor; and, about humor, the book is an absolute joy, a riot, a compendium, really, of jokes.🪿⬅️😓🥵

Susan Sontag hated various foods, and also, washing her hair, Robert Frost, and standing up. Paul Newman washed any restaurant salad in the bathroom, then reconstituted a dressing with table oil cut with water--Theroux uses food, the idea of food, to think, with humor as a basis.

But Theroux does think, actually, about food, the Eucharist, and, whether Hitler, or concentration camps, contain humor, and he thinks about me, and makes joke after joke after joke--Laura Warholic, Theroux, isn't racist--I write about the details, to explain my interpretation.👅

Theroux is cruel, but, the cruelty of the unique is difficult to fathom: Laura Warholic is cruel, but, the people I thought could recognize cruelty as mockery, which is mental, not physical--those people I think have decreased, which is unfortunate. But he ain't racist, of course