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	A Frolic of His Own - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Frolic of His Own is a novel by William Gaddis.
		Published in 1994 by Poseidon Press, A Frolic of His Own was Gaddis's fourth novel.
		Annotations to A Frolic of His Own at williamgaddis.org
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Frolic_of_His_Own (116 words)

	A Frolic of His Own (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Frolic has been serving as my subway reading for nearly two weeks now.
		In Frolic, characters' lines are woven together in much the same way that I hear people talking to each other every day; it is a very clever naturalistic technique.
		Frolic is a hard book to put down, which strangely makes it an excellent subway book.
	www.readin.com /books/frolic/thebook.html (412 words)

	The Modern Word - "Agape Agape" Review
		Further confirming the apparent near alignment of the author and his protagonist in this text is the fact that the drugs which the man in the bed is taking, and the physical symptoms of decline he is experiencing, were Gaddis’ also in the final months of his life.
		Alongside this patchwork aspect of Gaddis’ literary method there is also a distinctive ironic mood which pervades the texts, a constant tension or fibrillation between lucubration and burlesque, between earnestness and self-parody, and which becomes manifested through language and narrative orientation as much as it does in the convolutions and absurdities of plot.
		There are speculations – biographical, cultural, political – to be made about the author looking back on his own era, and on his life’s work, and looking forward to what will come of each of these after his death.
	www.themodernword.com /reviews/gaddis_agape.html (2141 words)

	Remember to Read Gaddis
		Finally, combine these two techniques with the large size of J.R., and realize that in all its 726 pages there are no words wasted on "he said," "she said," or the characters names (except when a name is said by a character) which, in an ordinary novel, would add up to a lot of words.
		I was able to read A Frolic of His Own (which may be the least confusing due to its small number of characters and scenes) only by reading through it first to identify each speaker, and write their initials down next to their lines, thereby attributing the dialog.
		A Frolic of His Own is a funny and very well-composed novel.
	www.unknownhypertext.com /readgaddis.htm (926 words)

	Index - Frolic - Gaddis Annotations
		As of today, under the title A FROLIC OF HIS OWN (Joel v.
		Two tales of self harming self then, the prize-winning A Frolic of His Own (despite its length of nearly 600 pages) has become Gaddis’s most popular work.
		A Census of A Frolic of His Own
	www.williamgaddis.org /frolic/index.shtml (607 words)

	The Gaddis Annotations - A Frolic of His Own - review by Michiko Kakutani
		A similar lawsuit lies at the heart of “A Frolic of His Own,” a lawsuit that will snowball, like the interminable lawsuit in “Bleak House,” into mayhem and madness for nearly everyone connected with the case, a lawsuit that will leave the reader with a darkly comic vision of a litigious society run perilously amok.
		In “A Frolic of His Own,” the law links people together in purely adversarial relationships of mistrust, promoting a Kafkaesque sense of disintegration and crisis, rather than a sense of order.
		There is almost no conventional narrative in “A Frolic of His Own”; most of the book consists of nothing but voices: characters creating themselves out of words, out of conversations, asides and ruminations.
	www.williamgaddis.org /frolic/frolicrevmkakutani.shtml (745 words)

	A Frolic of His Own : a novel by William Gaddis \| LibraryThing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A Frolic of His Own : a novel by William Gaddis
		A frolic of his own : a novel by William Gaddis (8 copies; separate)
		Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (6 copies; separate)
	www.librarything.com /card_card.php?book=14733 (118 words)

	Frolic: jazz, books, macs, food
		According to the New York Times, 40,000 unique copies of the magazine will be printed "to demonstrate the power and importance of databases." Frighteningly, Reason has also managed to imprint every copy of the magazine with the exact name and address of each subscriber.
		After the White House received a photo of William D. Leahy, the chief of staff for both Roosevelt and Truman, testifying before a 1945 congressional committee on Pearl Harbor, they finally accepted that historical precedent exists for presidential advisors to testify before Congress and allowed Condoleeza Rice to testify in public about 9/11.
		Tyler received more encouraging words from his own readers at Modern Art Notes, but the Journal's readers paint a depressing picture of the cultural war's aftermath.
	frolicofmyown.blogspot.com (1321 words)

	BBC News \| From Our Own Correspondent \| Plain speaking in court at last
		Some obvious examples - the Latin 'res ipsa loquitur' is used to mean that something is self-evident, and the phrase 'on a frolic of his own' describes an employee acting without his employer's authority.
		But that difference was, it seemed to me, accentuated to the point of parody by the law's insistence on its own high-flown jargon and language.
		A pub was always referred to in court as "a public house" - a term that no-one in the real world ever uses, and which conjures to my mind an image of upper-class disdain for disgusting working-class habits.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/272155.stm (682 words)

	Amazon.com: A Frolic of His Own: Books: William Gaddis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Perhaps William Gaddis' most accessible novel--though a dense and imposing book--A Frolic of His Own is a masterful work that mocks the folly of a litigious society.
		Frolic isn't as densely packed with intellect as JR or The Recognitions but is more accessible than either as his style is more accommodating in Frolic.
		In any event, as I began reading A Frolic of His Own, I found myself thinking, wow, I should have started with this one, because this is much more accessible than The Recognitions.
	www.amazon.com /gp/product/0684800527 (2279 words)

	Scriptorium - William Gaddis Works
		The most accessible, if darkest, of all of Gaddis’ novels, the events, characters and themes in Carpenter’s Gothic are contemporaneous with those of J R and A Frolic of His Own.
		Oscar Crease, yet another of Gaddis’s fictional alter egos, is a former community college history teacher and failed playwright who lives alone and ostracized amongst the clutter and gradual collapse of the family mansion on Long Island.
		Despite their solicitations and advice Oscar embarks on a spree of outrageous litigations, eventually suing himself for injuries sustained in the accident while also lodging a claim and injunction against a major Hollywood movie director for plagiarizing from his unproduced Civil War melodrama.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/gaddis_works.html (771 words)

	Link's Lessons - Your Own Celebration of Spring
		Frolic through you own recollections of things that took place in late March, April, May and early June.
		In addition to play, Spring is often filled with its own unique work to prepare for the coming season.
		Whether caring for a simple garden, or tilling acres of farmland, Springtime is rooted in preparation for Summer growth.
	www.twpt.com /yourownspring.htm (1047 words)

	The Trinidad Guardian -Online Edition Ver 2.0
		It was clear that his conduct fell wholly within the classical phrase of “a frolic of his own,” as the court recognised.
		Certainly, all these men were acting on frolics of their own and no one sought to sue the State.
		For this purpose, no distinction is to be drawn between injuries inflicted in the course of police duties and injuries inflicted by a police officer using a police gun for his own ends.
	www.guardian.co.tt /archives/2004-03-14/dana.html (814 words)

	Nikolaus Stingl - Translating A Frolic of His Own
		This short workshop report about my experiences translating William Gaddis's novel A Frolic of His Own can only be a first attempt at showing what problems the novel poses for a translator.
		By singling out five aspects I would like to demonstrate what makes literary translation attractive but also difficult, what a translation is able and what it is not able to accomplish, at which point the translator has to make compromises, or has to invent things.
		Here is an example: Christina tells how as a child Oscar built a canoe out of birch wood and showed it to his father full of pride; but when it was put into the water it immediately turned over.
	www.williamgaddis.org /translating/stingl-frolic.shtml (1160 words)

	books about: frolic (contemporary craftspeople girlfriends) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This is a delightful read for most woman over the age of fifty who questions whether she has anything to offer a man. Even if you never use any of the insight offered, you will come away better informed on some issues.
		This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on April 1, 2000.
		Although Sala's art has a style all its own, this book copies the usual Gorey format with a series of illustrations (one on each double-page spread) accompanied by rhyming text telling short, humourous nasty stories (the same sort of tongue-in-cheek horror fun for all ages of a Vincent Price movie).
	www.very-clever.com /books/frolic (969 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: A Frolic of His Own
		Secondly, he has managed to get himself run over by his own car while hot-wiring it and through the insurance company, he is claiming damages against himself.
		Gaddis chose to write on justice and jurisprudence at a time when there was a resurgence of interest in rights theory.
		In A Frolic of His Own, the law, finally, is about interpretation: about the validity of certain forms of interpretation and, just as importantly, about who possesses the power to enforce them.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7126 (506 words)

	NewStandard: 12/18/98
		In such novels as "The Recognitions" and "A Frolic of His Own," he revealed both a deep knowledge of language and society and an ironic sense of humor.
		"He was always wrestling with the form and making its own, pinning it down into Gaddis-ness," said Doctorow, a friend for many years.
		"Frolic" tells of a playwright who sues a Hollywood producer for plagiarism.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-98/12-18-98/b06ae070.htm (523 words)

	Advocate
		He is reported to have said that his preliminary investigations confirmed that the police officers involved in the incident were not on duty, “but on a frolic of their own”.
		The “frolic on their own” argument therefore is unsound.
		Rather than jumping to conclusions, it should be borne in mind that the photos seen in the newspaper were still and not from a movie camera.
	www.barbadosadvocate.com /NewViewNewsleft.cfm?Record=17585 (936 words)

	Gallup Independent 12-17-02
		GALLUP — Despite what the BIA says, a drunken employee in a government vehicle who decides to take an unauthorized "frolic of his own" through town is not excused from criminal negligence.
		Nor is the BIA excused from its liability for allowing him to drive with a revoked New Mexico driver's license and a prior aggravated DWI on his record, a Gallup attorney is asserting.
		Keeler added that the government's "frolic of his own" argument "is not a viable defense and does not excuse the United States from liability."
	www.gallupindependent.com /2002/12-17-02.html (2442 words)

	frolic of my own (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		She is fortunate to have her own personal assistant.
		However Mary still has to type many of her own letters and prepare a multitude of documents in relation to her demanding role.
		A blueprint, say, like this one: people act on their own perception of the facts before them, which leads to predictable behaviors about which something can be done.
	www.frolicofmyown.com (3948 words)

	William Gaddis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1975 he published J R, an even more difficult work than The Recognitions, told entirely in dialogue, with no direct indication of who is speaking at any given time.
		Its eponymous protagonist, an 11-year-old, learns enough about the stock market from a class field trip to build a financial empire of his own.
		The continuing litigation that was a theme in that book takes center place in A Frolic of His Own (1994)--which earned him his second National Book Award, and an American Book Award--where it seems that everyone is suing someone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Gaddis (821 words)

	village voice > home > The Precognitions by Ed Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Asked last October why he didn't translate his own books, the German-born British writer W.G. Sebald told an audience at the 92nd Street Y, in his meticulous English, Well, the main reason is that I started writing very late, in my mid forties, and I haven't got the time.
		His own books were like paper reliquaries, admitting photos, news clippings, sketches by Stendhal, pizzeria receipts—everything save a single false step, even though one of the quiet anxieties of his sui generis creations is the implosion, under a drizzle of memory, of story and source.
		His career was the inverse of Sebald's late but meteoric rise, his four novels—the others are JR (1975), Carpenter's Gothic (1985), and A Frolic of His Own (1994)—surfacing every decade or so.
	www.villagevoice.com /home/178,park,39023,21.html (2043 words)

	Meet the animals
		So don't fight it: Take them to frolic with their own kind.
		The nearly 200-acre campus is home to more than 300 animals, including baby lambs and goats, deer, an emu, and an eclectic range of birds (look for the basketball-playing condor).
		Petting and feeding the animals is not allowed, but children can still see goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, horses, donkeys and pigs (and their newborn piglets).
	www.thejournalnews.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050603/LIFESTYLE01/506030321/1031 (789 words)

	Amazon.com: Carpenter's Gothic (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics): Books: William Gaddis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Which sets up the main problem with the novel, the two characters are mostly unlikable, the novel begins with Paul berating Elizabeth nonstop while asking her to do stuff for him and it really doesn't relent, just about every scene of them together follows that pattern and it does get rather tedious after a while.
		Elizabeth isn't much better on her own, while Paul's foulmouthed rants have an amusing component to them, Elizabeth just tends to flutter and frit about and not saying anything of real import, although she does gain something resembling a spine toward the end.
		His command of his technique is as astounding as ever and it's a good a place to introduce yourself to his work as any (Frolic might better, Recognitions is not for the faint of heart due to its length and JR is actually rather atypical), even if you shouldn't stop there.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141182229?v=glance (2516 words)

	Washington University - News & Information
		The acquisition was made possible in part by a grant from the Lannan Foundation, a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity.
		Gaddis wrote and published four novels during his life: The Recognitions (1955), J R (1975), Carpenter’s Gothic (1985) and A Frolic of His Own (1994).
		Gaddis’ archive is extensive, including manuscripts and source materials for his novels, as well as related correspondence and clippings, unpublished stories, film scripts and plays, and non-fiction work for IBM, Kodak, Pfizer, and the United States Army.
	news-info.wustl.edu /News/2002/gaddis.html (903 words)

	IOL: Axed arts boss 'is going on a frolic of own'
		On Thursday, Gordon launched an urgent application on behalf of himself and the council, claiming that Jordan's dismissal of the board was "unlawful, invalid and procedurally unfair".
		His advocate, Ismail Jamie SC, argued that Jordan's dissolution of the board was "an effective coup d'etat" and said it was "unfair" to expect the National Arts Council to challenge its dissolution with its own funding.
		Director-General of the Department of Arts and Culture Itumeleng Mosala said in papers before the court that Jordan had dissolved the council after "meeting with and consulting representatives of the artistic community, who were incensed at the failure of the council to perform its statutory duty over the last one and a half years".
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=13&art_id=vn20041220104031945C913625&set_id= (607 words)

	A frolic of its own - Ross' Arbitration Blog
		A frolic of its own - Ross' Arbitration Blog
		If the 5th Circuit continues substituting its own version of the facts and its own interpretation of agreements, then these systems will be wrecked.
		Cough syrup grievances will be resolved in the courthouse instead of by arbitrators - flouting the will of Congress and needlessly adding to judicial workloads.
	www.lawmemo.com /arbitrationblog/2005/03/a_frolic_of_its_1.html (492 words)

	the constant reader recommends
		A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis.
		His take on our litigation-happy land makes Bleak House look like an episode of "People's Court." Including deposition transcripts and whacked-out judicial opinions, Frolic is hysterical, in all senses of the word.
		Words and photographs are copyright 2000 by Carol Van Houten and the individual contributors.
	www.constantreader.org /books9.html (699 words)

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