"Difficult"?

[Unknown User]

Greg Montalbano wrote:
> 
> I thought I'd take advantage of the current relative lull on the list to
> toss out a question about the much-vaunted difficulty of reading the works
> of Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
> 
> Anybody else?
> ~G~
> ______________________________________________________
> "No matter HOW good she looks, there's a guy somewhere
>  who just can't TAKE any more of her shit."
>                --Anonymous Graffiti

complex, yes. tough to read, sometimes, tho m&d isn't tough at all,
methinks. v had me sweating for about 100 pages after the initial
sailor's grave stuff, esp the 'in which stencil, a quickchange artist .
. . impersonations' chapter, tho i was drop-dead sick and maybe the mind
wasn't functioning so well. gr is a monster, hard to hold much less
grasp, tho after a couple unsuccessful attempts to get thru it, and then
after getting in to donald barthelme (snow white scared me for a while),
then pynchon's other stuff, i feel ready.
ray
great sig, by the by.
my favorite, in the can of a biker/indie-rock bar:

			penis

		   it's not a band,
          i just like writing the word penis