UMd Pynchon/DeLillo Class

[John.Hamill at vuw.ac.nz]

On Tue, 12 Sep 1995 Lindsay.Gillies at FMR.Com wrote:

> 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!

Well I hate to rain on anyone's party, but I have to admit that I have 
read the whole of GR aloud with my partner... so it is possible and a hell
of a lot of fun.  What you need is a long term view of the project
another enthusiastic participant and plenty of good red wine.

As far as the "rap" dialect goes I think you will find there is a whole
range of languge styles, a heterogeneity of discourses, dare I say it,
to be discovered in the novel.  P S, make sure your in good singing voice
when you try this also.