HUD HUDSON

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That's not me.  (I'm over here.)  It's Xerxes in her best Sunday dress.
This week she has been reading Alexander Theroux's Theroux Metaphrastes.

Xerxes is a huge fan of Alexander Theroux.  She wants you to go out

and buy and read and savor a copy of this little 1975 essay on literature.

 

 

"At the time of this writing, there is no towering poet, playwright, or novelist alive in the United States. 

Your fretting over that sentence proves it.  But why?  Is it because the stress today is on doing

rather than making?  Is it because a vision sufficiently explained is a vision divested of its charisma? 

Is it because the visual has replaced the verbal?  Does the contemporary writer have

all of Proust's allergies and none of his talent; all of Dostoevsky's hand-wringing and none of his passion;

all of Burton's madness and none of his measure; all of Corvo's opinion and none of his conviction;

all of Rimbaud's filth and none of his genius; all of Wilde's color, none of his wit;

all of Goethe's tears, none of his sorrow; and all of Christ's message and none of his beliefs?"

 

 

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Any comments you might have for Xerxes

can be sent to Hud[dot]Hudson[at]wwu[dot]edu.

I will see to it that she receives them.

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Last week Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Titus Alone

The week before Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast

The week before Xerxes was reading Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan

The week before Xerxes was reading Walter de la Mare's The Three Royal Monkeys

The week before Xerxes was reading John Collier's His Monkey Wife

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The week before Xerxes was reading Alexander Theroux's Darconville's Cat
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The week before Xerxes was reading Matthew Scully's Dominion
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The week before Xerxes was reading the Prologue in Heaven from Goethe's Faust
The week before Xerxes was reading Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market