From: James Diedrick
Category: Amis
Date: 9/1/99
Time: 12:49:07 PM
Remote Name: 147.124.221.27
It's never enough as far as I'm concerned. Jarma is like William Blake's Prolific, following his own Poetic Genius wherever it leads him, mapping the convoluted network of Amis's obsessively intertextual imagination with an attention to detail nothing short of astonishing (when does the guy sleep?)As someone who has read all of Amis's 200+ book reviews, I can testify that every writer Jarma has plumbed for traces that appear in Amis has been interviewed/reviewed by Amis. And since Amis admits he's something of a magpie of other's phrases, Jarma's excursions constitute an indispensable exploration of Amis's imaginative subconscious.
"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."
--Bill Blake, Proverbs of Hell