I'm so spoiled

[Meg Larson]

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| From: Craig Bleakley <cgbleak at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
| To: pynchon-l at waste.org
| Subject: I'm so spoiled
| Date: Sunday, May 18, 1997 2:52 AM
| 
|Monsieur Bleakley ecrits:
| 
| Does anyone feel that their reading of M&D has somehow been "violated"
| because of anything that's been posted here?  Any reader of any earlier
| P-work feel that way?
|
I'm slowly making my way through M&D, altho' I will be picking up this pace
in light of the upcoming group read, but I have read the spoilers, and
saved those that I may wish to have at hand when I get to the pertinent
passages.  I have read enough Pynchon to know that the spoilers, at least
so far, really won't spoil anything; Pynchon is not that simplistic.  I've
read the reviews, except Jimmy's and Jester's in Insouciance, and they have
merely whetted the appetite for me.  However, I take a certain degree of
comfort knowing that a few hundred other people are reading the same book I
am, and that their various and sundry expertises are just a post away or
three away.  If anything, the spoilers are enhancing my experience with the
book, and, as Gary Thompson pointed out last week or so, the spoilers are
increasing his anticipation level, and mine as well.

As Gary said: "As for me--spoil away!"

| This "pure reading" stuff is a romantic lie.  Criminney, if you're not
here
| to get new ideas, new connections  . . .
|
A-and clarifications, Enlightenment, insights . . .  

| What cemetery scene?
| 
Who swallows w-what???

|Meg
| Curmudgeon/bitch goddess/devil's advocate   
|