another go

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 29 10:09:52 CST 2002


>From what I can tell, essential reading includes (but
is hardly limited to) ...

--Norman O. Brown, Life against Death
--Walter Dornberger, V-2 (another likely source here
  esacpes me, coupla Dutch guys, I believe ...)
--Rainer Maria Rilke, The Duino Elegies
--A.E. Waite, A Pictorial Key to the Tarot
--Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the
  Spirit of Capitalism

My guess is that some (T.S.) Eliot, Freud and
Melville, in particular, wouldn't hurt as well.  And
some quick critical compendiums ...

--Harold Bloom, ed., Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's
  Rainbow
--Stephen Weisenberger, A Gravity's Rainbow Companion

But what do I know?  I'm only ...

--- Kyle Winkler <taos_hum1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> hey there y'all. i am asking the people who have
> read GR more than once a question: what five to ten
> books should i read to make my second round for 
> GR for enjoyable and fulfilling? i am thinking of
> things like Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, things like
> that....please flood my inbox with your ideas. the
> more the merrier! spanks!

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