"On the lecture given by Luc Herman and Bruno Arich: 
it is good to see how Thomas Pynchon's works can be
used as a kind of 'gate' towards other insights; the
work of both scientists tend to get away from
literature and more and more into history.  The trip
to Dora, Peenemünde, two years ago, of some Pynchon
scientists proves indeed to be very fruitful.  Luc
Herman told us a book is to be expected within two
years.  You ought to have been there to hear the
horrors described -up till cannibalism in Dora."

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

Not unclear at all.  Something along the lines of your
phrase "a book is to be expected within two years"
just stuck with me, is all, when I went looking for
something I thought I'd read, and that's what I found.
 Though I do recall being interested in seeing the
book now more obviously being referred to here as
we;;.  Question is, then, did I read something else
somewhere else?  I was expecting instead to find
someone German citing someone German, so ... so, sorry
to have caused any confusion.  Maybe I was simply
hoping to find something, is all ...

--- Michel Ryckx <michel.ryckx at freebel.net> wrote:
> Dave Monroe, quoting me.
> 
> > "Luc Herman told us a book is to be expected
> within two years."
> 
> I think I did not make myself clear enough: the
> research of  Herman and Bruno Ahrich (if I write
> that well) on Dora will lead to a book, I think
> in German.  Dr. Herman was certainly NOT talking
> about a new Pynchon novel. Sorry to disappoint you.

Mea culpa ...

> As I said before, I'm in for a Slow Learner reading,
> or the journalism.  This is, after all, pynchon-l.

Indeed ...

> Mike's idea of choosing themes and discussing these
> is very good, but how to organise it? It will,
> beyond any doubt, lead to endless flame wars with
> differing opnions we all know and none of the
> posters will change.

Not so pessimistic about that last clause there, but
... but those are my fears as well.  However,
discussions of recurrent themes, recurring elements,
recurring words, even, spring up regularly,
necessarily enough, as they most certainly would with
the short, early and/or non- fiction.  Indeed, I
suspect they would be even more so a matter of course
in a discussion of those works, as we'd particularly
have the benefit of hindsight there, having just
worked our way through the most recent text, and
eagerly awaiting (for however long) the next (though
I'm optimistic about that as well) ...

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