Gras statt Grass!

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

s~Z schrieb:
> I'll be posting a sign-up for TDTD as time permits. Must admit I wasn't
> rooting for Pynchon this time.


 You mean, you really prefer the Blechtrommel to Gravity's Rainbow?! It's like 
 voting for, say, Sting when you could have Donald Fagen. I can't believe 
 this... GR, V and M&D are, according to my ever so humble opinion, all far 
 better than this one good book of Grass (- to put it more exactly: it's first  
 2/3 are good), that reaches about the quality of Vineland. Even Col49 is 10  
 times better than anything Grass has written after he returned from Paris. This 
 social democratic common sense bullshit has nothing to do with our man's high 
 art:  "the real stuff - long-practiced, all-out, contrary-to-fact, capital M 
 Magic".
                 Shame on you, Kai

 PS: But here's another clue for you all. In "Der Butt" Amanita muscaria plays a 
 similar role like in GR. Keith & Terrance could write together an article on 
 this for the next edition of Pynchon Notes: "Mushroom epistemologies: Pynchon, 
 Grass & the objective alchemical perspective". Must be mindblowing.