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[Dave Monroe]

Thank you.  It's not often I see those first four
words alone here, so ...

--- slothenvypride <slothenvypride7 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree with Monroe and others: first, bring the
> current MDDM to a satisfying conclusion. Those of
> you who've worked hard at it deserve that much.
> But we can sure begin figuring out what to read
> next....

I'm all for the running head start.  I've even been
reading up on David Hilbert in anticipation of the
rumored subject of the new novel, but ...  

> Seems with all the titles and names being
> dropped, it may take a while to reach a decision
> anyway.

But I can't believe that, as this list hasn't
apparently yet officially taken on Slow Learner
(whereas I merely missed Vineland here), the decision
isn't nigh-unto-automatic.  We'd not only perhaps be
able to go from Pynchon's earliest to his latest work,
but we could, as Mike Weaver suggested, trace various
filiations along the way (which has been an implicit
task to explicit practice of this list anyway).  And
there's always the (canonical, at LEAST) non-fiction
as well, as Otto pointed out.  All those short,
manageable pieces, all our short, unmanageable
attention spans, perfect way to while away the time to
a new novel ...
 
> Assuming we read an author other than P, some things
> to consider: 
> 1. Do we want an American author, or not? 
> 2. Do we want a 20th Century author, or earlier? 
> 3. Do we want a book of a particular length? What's
> this about the two-year rumours, Mr. Monroe?

>From Michel Ryckx ...

"Luc Herman told us a book is to be expected within
two years."

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0206&msg=67605&sort=date

Prof. Luc HERMAN - Program Coordinator, M.A. in
American Studies
University of Antwerp

http://pcger50.uia.ac.be/amst/id20.htm

LUC HERMAN
teaches American literature and literary theory at the
University of Antwerp (Belgium). The author of
Concepts of Realism (1996), he has just edited a
special issue on Gravity's Rainbow for Pynchon Notes
and is currently writing two books: one on narratology
(in Dutch) and the other on the post-WWII encyclopedic
novel in the US. Herman reviews the collection
Cyberspace Textuality in ebr10.

http://www.altx.com/ebr/info/contribs/contribs.htm#H

Pynchon Notes 42-43 (Spring-Fall 1998). Pp. 342.
$14.00. ISSN 0278-1891.

This double issue, guest edited by Luc Herman,
assembles 18 papers from the 1998 Pynchon conference
at Antwerp, all being devoted to aspects of Gravity’s
Rainbow....

http://www.let.uu.nl/eaas/reviews/pynchon_notes.htm
 
> IMO, it might be fun to read an early pomo work like
> Tristram Shandy (thanks, Monica darlin'!) for a
> change.

Though, if non-Pynchon we must, as close thereto as
possible.  Warlock (which I haven't read--will score
copy shortly), The Edumacation of Henry Adams (though
I know from experience, that's a tough one to keep
people going on), whatever, but ... well, REALLY, you
all HAVEN'T done Slow Learner here?
 
> Of course, if we choose to read another P text, it
> might not be a bad idea to create a list-generated
> "anthology" of P non-fiction, including "Nearer My
> Couch to Thee," Lotion liner notes, and other goofy
> stuff.

See, e.g. ...

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_sloth.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_lotion.html

Et soforthiam ...

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