Comments on: Midsummer Roundtable, Part V

By: Hythloday

Hythloday — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:05:23 +0000

I thought that it would be the weapon’s grade haluncinogin that they had scored and have hidden, that was going to send Hal under. Until I can’t remember now who it was who says they sold it to whom we assume must be Pemulis (was it Lucien?) but reveal that the pills were fake. So it’s not that, then.

By: Gladis

Gladis — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:42:47 +0000

I finished it a while ago now, but at the halfway point I remember having felt most of those feelings too

By: Todeswalzer

Todeswalzer — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:40:35 +0000

What makes you think that Hal is the grotesque one?

By: Edward

Edward — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:54:24 +0000

Am I completely missing it here? Doesn’t something huge have to happen to Hal to make him the grotesque thing he is at the U of A interview?

By: MIAFan

MIAFan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:52:13 +0000

“At the moment it seems too much like Marathe has the upper hand.”
Hardly, because how is is Marathe ever to get back up the precipice? This has been killing me through the whole scene. He’d never ask Steeply to carry him. Never! Although from the looks of it in the Anitoi scene, those AFR guys are pretty strong.

By: sue

sue — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:41:34 +0000

Would like to send you all a big THANKS – it is great to hear some of your thoughts -esp helps me remember parts I had forgotten or not thought of for a while (THAT is why I will have to read it again!) – admittedly I have taken a break lately because the first half was SO FULL of SO MUCH!! For me the biggest “message” or “theme” DFW seems to communicate is: life is so complex and we should really just revel in and wonder at it – mystery and all. So… ready for the next half.

By: brian warden

brian warden — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:44:06 +0000

I love your answer Mathew, as DFW seems to always do this; I think that to him, anything resembling resolution at all is lame, formulaic, pop crap.