UMd Pynchon/DeLillo Class

[Gillies, Lindsay]

>From: Alex George McAlmon
>Along these lines, and out of curiousity, do any of you know whether GR
>has been recorded on audiotape *unabridged*?

I've tried to read GR aloud---I read Tom Jones aloud over a period of time, 
and wanted to continue reading aloud, and tried GR.  But I discovered that 
(for me) it was impossible to do this---it is as if what TRP has written is 
already "read aloud".  For me, the only way to "produce" the work is via 
silent reading, which generates an internal soundtrack.  I think this 
relates to previous discussions of TRP and jazz.  TRP's diction is in itself 
a rap dialect, hence via some bizarre aesthetic inversion can't be read 
aloud in the usual sense.  A-as I'm writing this, though, I'm imagining say 
Lenny Bruce doing it---which definitely puts it out of my league, and out of 
Recorded Books' league too, I bet!