Reading stuff on, about, on, under, over, around, through, Pynchon

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Kyle Winkler wrote:
> 
> just to back up what some were saying earlier, i was at barnes and
> noble and there was a stack of good looking M&D for $4.99. obviously,
> i snatched one.
> 
> best and regards. kyle.

You paid too much, a cloth copy is $3.00 now. ;-) 

Of course you'll have to go over to Carmine Street off Bleeker to get
one, but it's worth the trip. Not for the book, but the record stores
and if you care to fly you can meet me in the park. I didn't check the
price at Strands, but I did find a very nice copy of Typee (1962). If
you happen to be going hunting in some of the many book stores in and
around NYC or anyplace, always have a list with as much info as you can
gather. So, if you go down stairs at Strands, say you are looking for
some Americana, specifically history of America circa 1750, it's best to
know  authors and titles and ISBN and so on.  From these you can search
the bibliographies of the books you find and play Oedipa Mass goes to
the book store.  You can go over to a big library or even access a big
library from home on  the net, do your searches and print out the stuff,
bring it to the books stores. To get the articles and dissertations,
simply go to the periodical room at the library and look them up with a
key word search. Write down the info required on the slip of paper and
hand it to the clerk. In some libraries they limit you to three volumes
per request since they will need to send your slip of paper up a vacuum
tube to the stacks and have another person send it down to you. If you
can crawl around in the stacks all by your self, again, make sure you
have as much information you can gather and look in the bibliographies.
Sit and skim them and decide which ones are best for your purposes. Not
everything is on a computer at the libraries, so you may want to ask
about this. Also, most libraries will provide computer access in the
stacks, but some won't let you in the stacks at all, while others will,
but there are non computers up there. Also, you can read abstracts on
the computer. So, you can do a key word search, say, of  dissertations,
key word "Pynchon," and then sit and read an abstract. In some systems
you can also read a portion of the dissertation on the computer, and
order the entire thing sent home to your computer. This can be expensive
so ask about the cost and find out if you can get it paid for somehow.
Just rambling here Kyle, but, and I mean no disrespect cause you did
ask, but some libraries have a very Kool service, you can actually take
a tour of the library with a disk-man. Anyway, I think that critical
stuff is kool, some of it is amazing. 

Now, if only we could get the archives to work so I can get this ball
out of Guildenstern's half of the court.