Getting GR (or, where to start)

[Robert Bruno]

I certainly intend to reread GR; after the first time my mind 
was reeling.  However, there *were* many parts where I felt a coming 
together, a symmetry.  If was going to tell someone where to start 
reading GR, I'd tell 'em to  read *The Story of Byron the Bulb* and 
then start from the beginning.  IMHO, the Byron bit is a fucking stroke of 
genius: it provides a constant, a light (if I may) to read GR under. 
It allowed me to stand back a bit, to remove myself from the intricacies 
of the plot and focus on what Pynchon is trying to say about mankind's 
relations with technology/machines/inanimate objects.

Rob





On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Paul Mackin wrote:

> Is not GR a book one _rereads_ rather than reads? First readings
> might just as well be done in reverse or accessing individual
> chapters randomly. By the way, these aren't bad techniques. They
> reduce anxiety over the fact that you aren't "getting" it.
> 
> After several readings, you are "connecting" from the first paragraph.
> It is an organic, seamless whole.
> 
> Picky picky. I liked the points you made.
> 
> 				P.
>