R: Whatcha readin?

[Paolo Cavallo]

Michel Tournier. I highly recommend his Le Roi des Aulnes. You will find a very different WW2 hero from Tyrone Slothrop and a very different view of sexuality, especially with regards to children.

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" If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of hu-
    man lives and deaths, if everything about an individual
        could be represented in a computer record by a long
                   string of ones and zeros, then what kind
Paolo Cavallo              of creature would be represented
via Beroaldo 38               by a long string of lives and
40127 Bologna ITALY                                deaths? "
ton0621 at iperbole.bologna.it         THOMAS R. PYNCHON (1937)

          " It is the third commonness with light and air,
            A curriculum, a vigor, a local abstraction...
           Call it, once more, a river, an unnamed flowing "
                               WALLACE STEVENS (1879 - 1955)
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> Da: Craig G. Bleakley <cgbleak at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
> A: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Oggetto: Whatcha readin?
> Data: mercoledì 8 gennaio 1997 8.51
> 
> Humankind does not live by Pynchon alone, sad but true.  Neither do we--ha
> ha.  However, i do imaginre that this is a diverse group other than our
> mutual predilicition.  So: I was curious what folks are currenty reading,
> and I wanted an opportunity to let a potentially interested audience know
> that I'm in the middle of "Crash" by J.G. Ballard and i highly recommend
> it--sex, automobiles and death--sort of like what Burroughs might have
> written had he subscribed to Car and Driver.
> 
> And what are you reading?
>