Re: GG and The Last Puritan

[Mary Jo Watts <mwatts@rci.rutgers.edu>]

If you'd like to join the debate on TLP-- there's an ANCIENT f_minor page
displaying what I thought were the most Gouldian excerpts from the novel.
I did manage to read it all even though novels aren't my strong suit.
(If anyone remembers I'm a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature,
promise not to tell my advisors!!!)

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mwatts/glenn/puritan.html

-Mary Jo


On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Anne M. Marble wrote:

> 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?

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