A Note To P-Listers

[Paranoid]

Cobwebby.  Well, I'm young(ish) 24.  I didn't read GR till I was about 20.
I don't say much in this group because I am not always reading the book but
I do read the messages (most of them) fairly regularily. I think what you
guys are doing is fine.  I guess I should say we cause I'm contributing
right now.  Though I often believe, being a writer myself, that people often
go too far in analysis of novels. But then, at the same time, I love it when
someone gets a new view of something I have written.  I have actually
changed my mind about what exactly I was writing after someone has mentioned
what they found in the story. Maybe I was thinking that?
Who knows.
Nevertheless, for scholarly work on Pynchon (which this certainly is) I have
found nothing better. Sometimes we get petty, sometimes I can just see
people at home or work checking their e-mail every three seconds to see what
kind of rebuttal there has been, but in the end, as the internet should be,
this is informative. And information is what we are here for.
Right then.
That's all for now.
Does anyone ever speak of the Crying of Lot 49?  That book (though Pynchon
says he hacked it out for cash) is extrodinary in its briefness and depth.
Cheers