Suck Again--Thomas Pynchon Not Insane!

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

William Karlin writes:
>  I forgot to mention this yesterday, but one of the links in this piece
> goes to an L.A. Weekly article from 1986 about Steve Erickson's _rubicon
> beach_ (which I hadn't heard of -- any good?  It sounds interesting.)

I read several of Erickson's books, including Rubicon Beach, and found
them interestingly bizarre but ultimately rather shallow, more
exercises than anything very readable. It is probably worth
experiencing at least one of them but they are not on my reread pile.
I think I preferred Tours of the Black Clock(?) and Arc d'X to Rubicon
Beach.


Andrew Dinn
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How do you know but ev'ry bird that cuts the airy way
Is an immense world of pleasure clos'd by your senses five