NP (Not Really): Kotler's "Angle Quickest for Flight"

[Jeffrey Ross]

Hmmm.  Well, I have it ordered for the hell of it. It looked interesting in
a lot of ways.
Anyone else made their way through 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet' yet?
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark A. Douglas <madness at airmail.net>
To: Maltan MilkBalls <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Cc: Mark Douglas <madness at airmail.net>
Date: Sunday, September 12, 1999 10:25 PM
Subject: NP (Not Really): Kotler's "Angle Quickest for Flight"


>Was it Salon that first posited this book as "pynchonian" (whatever that
>means...and just what does that *really* mean in relation to comparable
books?),
>or as "a cross between Pynchon and Virginia Woolf" (or some other
preposterous
>comparison that no book rightly deserves)?
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>A very poorly edited book.  Reminds me of reading "Oscar and Lucinda" in
>hardback first edition (a notoriously poorly edited book, sort of fixed for
the
>paperback release as I recall, but I never bothered to check).  Sentences
as
>times simply seem to be missing words, or at least clauses.
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>Also, struck me immediately as a derivation of Barnhardt's "Gospel" (which
>struck me as a derivation of "Foucault's Pendulum", which struck me
as...but
>enough of that),  but aside from some oddly named characters (Padre
Isosceles,
>Coyote Blu, Angel...)(and what book these days doesn't feature oddly named
>characters), it strikes me as having little to do with our man P.  Yes,
there's
>conspiracy, yes, there's sacred texts, but there's very little magic, and
>ultimately, IMHO, Pychon is a writer of and about magic, and to my mind, a
>'pynchonian' novel would be magical. (Editorial aside:   Jim Dodge has come
the
>closest to a 'pynchonian' novel, again, IMHO.)
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>Just thoughts, because someone asked not so long ago.
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>MAD
>madness at airmail.net
>...who thinks, even though he enjoys his work, that Steve Erickson is much
>closer to Jonathan Carroll in spirit than he is to Pynchon...
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