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[Gregory L Roth]

I'm frequently asked by my five year old daughter Journey Danielle,
"Daddy what's your favorite color?"
The truth is difficult to explain to her; I like combinations of color. 
See how the purple looks when next to it's complement yellow.  Or, the
discord of blue and red now appeased by a tertiary?

Books for me are like that too.  In the blue-collar, world snatching 30
minutes of GR during lunch break, cheeseburgers suggesting need for
Pointsman's antibiotics- Journey to bed, then and hour of reading before
I wearily follow, I find that I often have more than one book going at a
time... especially if it is a stout book like GR.

The first time I tried to read GR it was with Aynn Rand's "Atlas
Shrugged."  This caused an uptake of brain chemicals that setraline was
totally ill equipped to handle.  Gravity's Rainbow was murdered, turned
into sixteen bucks worth of confetti, and a really neat scar of a cross
was burned into my forearm- it was a tragically bad combination.  But, I
did get through Atlas, and I don't spend 100 bucks a month on Zoloft
anymore.

The next time it was with Shire's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." 
I'm on page 557 of GR... I'm cruise'n man!  Funny thing is, Pynchon's
fiction, seems so much more real (and probably historically accurate)
than Shire's history.  I really enjoy reading about the historical
context behind his work, and references about its historical accuracy, on
the list.  I understand that true art cannot be didactic, and I admire
Pynchon's work very much in this regard.  While within its context, it is
artistically open for us to imprint with our own personalities and
meanings, there is also its ever present historical texture.  I'm not
educated, and I'm learning a lot by following the historical tangents
that Pynchon presents me with, and by your comments on the list.  I
appreciate any help I can get.

Peace,
	Greg