shall i protect a whorl?

[Dave Monroe]

... okay, the particular link for The Crying of Lot 49 is
http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/readers/readerpage.asp?isbn=0060931671  ... V. is at
http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/readers/readerpage.asp?isbn=0060930217 ...
some confusion finding an address for Cesar Chavez High School in Phoenix, AZ, as it might well be in
Laveen, a suburb, instead, but I imagine you can work that out yourself.  As for news, well, others here
will undoubtedly know better, but The Pynchon Files site seems to be about as up-to-date as anything, it's
at  http://www.pynchonfiles.com/ ...

Dave Monroe wrote:

> ... well, think your inquiries went largely unanswered here, and, while I can't claim to be
> particularly qualified to answer them, I did notice that one David W. Lawrence, author of
> "Counterfeiting America in Mason & Dixon" (Oklahoma City Univeristy Law Review, Vol. 24, no. 23 [Fall,
> 1999] ... the "Thomas Pynchon and the Law" issue, which I'm finding is, indeed, a must have), "teaches
> 9th-grade English at Cesar Chavez High School in Phoenix, Arizona."   So maybe talk to this guy, for
> starters ... but, hell, I've even got little "Reading Group Guide" pamphlet from Harper Perennial on V.
> and The Crying of Lot 49 I've been using as a bookmark, there are ten questions per book which aren't
> actually all too bad of places (topoi, topics) to start.  My personal favorite: "After speaking with
> Driblette's mother and with the neofascist 'Winner' Tremaine, the troubled Oedipa thinks, 'This is
> America, you live in it, you let it happen.'  What are the implications of that thought?"   These are
> actually online at http://www.perennialclassics.com ... click on "Readers," which will lead you to an
> impressive list of titles ... but I imagine there are many here who can and will be of far more help
> ...
>
> John Pappas wrote:
>
> > hello all...
> >
> > this is my first pynchon post, having signed up a week ago after having completed 'lot 49' and
> > 'vineland'. i am soon to start 'mason & dixon'. i have two questions:
> >
> > 1) i am an english teacher, and i would love to teach 'lot 49' in a class labeled 'modern
> > american', which i am slowly shifting to 'post-modern american'. has anyone developed lesson plans
> > for this novel (geared toward the high school level preferably, but i'm more than willing to
> > adapt)?
> >
> > 2) this may be an embarrassingly newbie question, but what the hell -- i have no shame. what's the
> > latest news on new pynchon material. i know he's been doing a lot of liner notes for various albums
> > (i have the spike jones disc), and he interviewed lotion as well (transcript online?)...is there a
> > discography of these short pieces? will he be publishing anything new anytime soon?
> >
> > thanks for your patience, and thanks for your insightful comments.
> >
> > john