General disillusionment

[Bruce Appelbaum]

What makes you think _any_ of us "get it?"  And as for being smart, what you
are seeing is a group intelligence.  Members of the group put their two or
three cents in, and after a while it starts to add up.  Read TRP for
enjoyment, for the "nuggets", for the impending gleam, for the flow of the
prose, for the smack on the back of the head.


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Regards

Bruce Appelbaum
Yorktown Heights, New York


----- Original Message -----
From: "E. Dominic Black" <edblack at starquest.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 4:02 PM
Subject: General disillusionment


> I've been on this list for years and am always amazed at the things you
> people write. You are so smart, drawing from sources all over. I'm both
> impressed and in awe of your mastery. Yet I often have no idea what
> you're talking about. I've read everything by Pynchon except for M & D,
> which I have purchased. I've downloaded a concordance, I'm ready to
> roll. I'm a little hesitant to begin, because, before I joined the list,
> I read his novels for pleasure, delighting in the little discoveries I
> made therein. But after plowing through daily postings of the most
> esoteric parts of the novels, I question whether I am truly "getting"
> TP's work. Have I somehow been misled into thinking that I know what
> he's talking about?
>
> E. Dominic Black
>
>