tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701746170614286174.post2521357723388500560..comments2024-02-22T19:08:30.210-06:00Comments on Hyacinths and Biscuits: Number 4: John Updike "Thoughts While Driving Home"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06391515249079225198noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701746170614286174.post-49007835202723668092014-05-26T20:52:44.794-05:002014-05-26T20:52:44.794-05:00What are we to make of these appearances of signs ...What are we to make of these appearances of signs in the novels? For one thing, Updike is obviously including them in these fictions as part of his desire to present real slices of life from late twentieth century American society – what it is/was like to live in this time, in this place<br />http://postmoderndeconstructionmadhouse.blogspot.com/2013/12/signs-and-signage-in-updikes-rabbit.html#.UyN2cj9dXxAAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12280800909689675518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701746170614286174.post-90502740519504316482013-07-09T18:48:50.935-05:002013-07-09T18:48:50.935-05:00I was thinking about poetry (engaged in an Ogden N...I was thinking about poetry (engaged in an Ogden Nash quote-off with a friend online) and thought of this poem, which brought me to your blog. I tend to agree with your comments; I did a paper on Updike in 1963 for a teacher who thought American Lit began and ended with Hawthorne and Melville, and can't help feeling vindicated that he's now acknowledged as a Great American Writer. I was Deep. :)Agneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08686432929257252179noreply@blogger.com