who said what

[Murthy Yenamandra]

Re: The mini-confusion over who said:
> [...] From what I see here,
> many of the people on the list have not been able to get through
> Gravity's Rainbow and, in fact, are here in order to understand it
> better.

Went back and looked at the archives. I believe it indeed was Jules
(responding to Mascaro). The full text was:

> [7] I read all his short stories. I read V. carefully more than once and
> I summarized it for North American Newspaper Alliance in 1963. The
> Crying of Lot 49 left me cold, but I did read it. From what I see here,
> many of the people on the list have not been able to get through
> Gravity's Rainbow and, in fact, are here in order to understand it
> better.

Not that it really matters who said it (reading and sending mail through
web-browsers seems to screw up an attribution here and there) - I'm sure
that it is a view shared by quite a few. Jules' followup to it is the
interesting part.

Murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
"Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in
that gap all human sadness lies." - _Blue Dog_