tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post115092159590695993..comments2023-11-12T13:22:30.358+01:00Comments on andrewjshields: Gilbert SorrentinoAndrew Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post-1151835153318358852006-07-02T12:12:00.000+02:002006-07-02T12:12:00.000+02:00I saw the announcement of his death, too, and reme...I saw the announcement of his death, too, and remembered sitting on my mattress on the floor in my room on the 2nd floor at Synergy watching my roommate Mike laughing and pulling on his moustache and twisting his long hair while reading aloud to me from some novel of Sorrentino's that Mike was reading alongside the real assignments from Sorrentino in a class he was taking from him on American fiction. Mike's eyes shown, he couldn't stop laughing and reading and interrupting whatever else I might have been trying to read - Russian? German? - and rocking on his mattress back and forth laughing. Gilbert Sorrentino, Gilbert Sorrentino, Gilbert Sorrentino.Ruth B. Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12200625590484772925noreply@blogger.com