A Frolic of His Own

a. New York: Poseidon Press, January 1994
b. London: Viking, June 1994
c. New York: Scribner, January 1995.
d. London: Penguin, 1995.

 




A Frolic of His Own
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51-100 (56-112) §
101--150 (119--164) §
151-200 (174-224) §
201-250 (228-281) §
251-300 (285-341) §
301-350 (344-394) §
  351--400 (402-449) §
401--450 (465-516) §
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          . . . As of today, under the title A FROLIC OF HIS OWN (Joel v. Morrison, 1834, 6 C.&P. 501, 172 Eng.Rep.1338) the entire 600+ pages of turmoil is in the hands of Poseidon/Simon & Schuster in the form of corrected galleys waiting to be cut & bound, packaged & remaindered over the months to come (publication date probably January '94) & thank the Lord to have it out of my hands.
          Quite contrary to the received opinion of legal language as purposely obfuscatory I had come to admire its tortuous (no pun intended) struggles for precision & contingency ("holding these rights in perpetuity throughout the world and elsewhere"), was handed Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad &, once hooked, on to Prosser & thence a gift of every human foible in AMJUR's all 84 vols. till finally a couple of years ago I soberd up to the fact that I was writing a novel of civilization & its discontents not a compendium of western law & finally surfaced a few months ago to my great relief & that of those around me albeit with decisions never to be reached & opinions never to be written. Which may be just as well.  
          At any rate I hope you will find the final product entertaining & perhaps even, as Conrad had it, with that little bit of truth we'd forgot to ask for.

Yours,
W. Gaddis
30 July 1993                         

 

-- letter to Peter Friedman

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