something about pynchon and me...

[David Morris]

>From: "Saioued Al-Zaioued" I have spent the last three years as an avid 
>reader of pynchon. I read pynchon relegously, forming many academic 
>decisions with respect to his work, and my interest in literature was 
>summed up by many as an interest in him. I feel a little let down, now that 
>I am going through V. with all of yall

"Yall?"  You need to leave Chicago and head south, Saioued!

>(though in a more erratic pace, I've been ahead of you guys by several 
>sections most of the time), I feel empty. I do not know if I made all the 
>right decisions, but I could always claim that I was enjoying everything I 
>was doing;

Hedonism rules! YES!!!

>that is no longer true. The man has become so distant from the work, that 
>the work is lonely, and I feel V. is an empty set in hollywood, an 
>abandoned movie script that was entertaining for the first couple of scenes 
>that the studios had no interest in.

He has constructed a challenge which might be felt as artificial, contrived, 
but the depths of his hinted arguments and those kutely korresponding 
allusions are worth pursuing.  V. is a ponderance.  Keep pondering.

David Morris


I could crawl into
>Finnegans
>Wake, and come out a stronger man, like a scrawny kid joining the navy to
>become a man, but if I do that I might just loose it all and head south to
>lawschool or b-school. Any advice on this situation would be greatly
>appreciated. I would like anyone to show me their favorite passage in V. 
>and
>why they think pynchon is worth so much of their time, I need to get the
>faith back, I can't live like this.
>
>     slightly suicidal on a saturday morning saud.
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