Ballade de list du temps jadis

[Doug Millison]

At 12:25 PM -0400 6/30/99, ckaratnytsky wrote:
>     Well, I don't know that my memory's any less faulty, but my sense of
>     it is that we finished on schedule what Andrew had plotted out for us,
>     which was all of section 1.  We/Andrew hadn't planned anything
>     further, Mason & Dixon materialized, so we jumped on it.  No big deal,
>     really.

Wasn't that about the time that a certain person joined Pynchon-L and
entered a series of discussions and flame exchanges that were later
published in a certain book?  My sense from reading the archives some time
ago is that this disruption had an impact on the first GRGR, but I didn't
actually become a P-list subscriber until a couple of months later so can't
say I have any first-hand knowledge beyond what I read in the archives.

>
>     In the throes of some purple haze or other with Tim and Andrew, I had
>     the idea it would be really cool if we all read BEEN DOWN SO LONG at
>     some point.  I haven't read it since it was assigned to us in grammar
>     school.  Is it still in print?


The idea of reading this, or some other book that TRP has singled out for
particular praise, sounds like fun.

I'd be willing to participate in such a project. And, re that "purple haze"
. . .

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