GG and The Last Puritan

["Anne M. Marble" <amarble@sff.net>]

Has anyone here read Santayana's "The Last Puritan," which
was one of GG's favorite books? (I've read only up to the
birth of the main character, which took about 40 pages of
rather small type, so I can't comment yet.)

How do you think the book relates to Glenn Gould and his
life? Glenn Gould loved to think of himself as the Last
Puritan. There was a lot about GG that was puritanical (in
a good way), yet there was much that wasn't. How many
contradictions do you see between Glenn Gould and the
concept of the Last Puritan?

Also, do you think that when he wasn't reading authors such
as Santayana and Alan Watts, Glenn Gould liked to read
Snoopy and the like in secret? He did drop a "Linus blanket"
reference in one of his essays. (I'm trying to imagine GG
reading an Agatha Christie novel when he thought no one was
looking...)

Anne M. Marble