Vineland East

[MILLARD at zodiac.rutgers.edu]

Ted:

Hey, you're on this one too!  I did my undergrad honors thesis on _GR_ 
despite my official advisor's inability, after several attempts, to get
beyond about p. 200.  (I wound up talking to another prof about _GR_ and
to my advisor about background sources.)  I'd put in a vote for letting
it wash over you; disorientation is part of the experience.  The data
will settle into recognizable patterns about the third time you read it.
Trying to follow all the plot threads (let alone historical/philosophical/
linguistic/cybernetic/gender-political/mathematical/etc. implications)
seems like a good way to end up in the bughouse.  (There were always
rumors around my old school about a guy who tried a _GR_ thesis a few
years before me & did in fact bug out, though he eventually finished it.)

A lot of the readers' guides weren't around when I was working on it, but
I've heard great things about David Cowart's.

Since the conscious rational Weberian analytic Calvinist (etc.) mind is
a primary target for dissection & d*c*nstr*ct**n in this book, it seems
only appropriate to give up any attempts at rational analytic control
from the outset.

Enjoy the ride!

Bill Millard
(striving to be unconscious, irrational, Nietzschean, synthetic, & Buddhist)