Thank You!

[David Morris]

You're very welcome.

I don't think this list will disintegrate.  It might wind-down, sputter, 
fart, and become generally irrelevant...  well... I mean... MORE irrelevant.

As for V. it seems the present status of that group read is not dependent on 
votes.  s~Z has left the host-hat on the hook, and there it sits 'till 
someone else decides to take on that role.  I think there is a "general" 
feeling floating about that wishes for a breather from intensive group 
reads.  I know that I need to read other works than Pynchon's for a while, 
and there are only so many hours in each day which I can eek out for such 
solitary pleasures.

I must admit that all the books I plan to read next are ones that have been 
mentioned here.  And I will issue reports.  So far, I must enthusiastically 
recommend Katherine Hume's "Pynchon's Mythography - An Approach to Gravity's 
Rainbow."  Read it only AFTER you've read GR at least twice.

Also, J.M. Coetzee's "Dusklands," highly recommended by Murthy here, has 
proved to be a gem.  A very small book, two short stories totalling 121 
pages.  It has some of the feel of Nabakov for me.  Here's a short quote 
from "The Vietnam Project," all of which is first-person narrative of a 
"writer" charged with de/re/constructing a psychological warfare strategy 
for the "police action" over there:

"Why could they not accept us?  We could have loved them: our hatred for 
them grew only outof broken hopes.  We brought them our pitiable selves, 
trembling on the edge of inexistence, and asked only that they acknowledge 
us.  [...]  Our nightmare was that since whatever we reached for slipped 
like smoke through our fingers, we did not exist; that since whatever we 
embraced wilted, we were all that existed.
[...]
Fro Tears we grew exasperated.  Having proved to our sad selves that these 
were not the dark-eyed gods who walk our dreams, we wished only that they 
would retire and leave us in peace.  They would not.  For a while we were 
prepared to pity them, though we pitied more our tragic reach for 
transcendence.  Then we ran out of pity.

DM

>From: "Ben McLeod"
>
>>uttered that blasphemy?  He said it in PURITY.  That was what scared 
>>Bliicero.  I wish all P-listers such orgasms.
>
>  This is, I think, the nicest thing anyone has said to anyone else since 
>I've been here!
>  Sorry if I come off like the Negative Nelly- I really am a cherub cheeked 
>happy magic man who spends his days frolicing with puppies and monkeys, la 
>la la...
>
>  Anyway, fine.  I'll vote V, if it will keep the list from disintegrating.

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