SLSL Intro (A Couple-Three Bozos

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, now that I'm finally caffeinated ...

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> >>>So the first question is, who are you
> talking/complaining/er, bitching to/about/at
here?<<<
> 
> Me, you, anybody, everybody. Nice to see your dander
> up. 

Have a special shampoo for that, but ...

> When I read TRP I sense something I can't put into
> words.

I do not disagree.  This is partially why I rarely
actually comment on much of anything, preferring
instead to post whatever what's at hand puts me in
mind of.  But as you know, there is research, if not
necessarily to, that can be done, and that seems to
suggest, well, SOMETHING, but ...

> ... novellist as enchanter. Nabokov does the same
> thing to me Pynchon does. Tin Drum and Moby Dick did
> it. Beckett does it. It is powerful. It makes life
> worth living. Pynchon himself says no one is
> listening. 

Er, where, how, exactly ...?  Me, I ain't much for the
mystic, but I am all about the sublime.  I think we're
talking about something similar.  Only other author
I've gone even NEARLY to the trouble for is Beckett,
so ... but unlike Nabokov, Beckett, most anybody else,
with Pynchon, I constantly find myself asking, what
provoked this?  I get the feeling there's Something
being Said, and not just in some simulated,
pseudo-apocalyptic sense, although Pynchon ceratinly
has a penchant for that ...

> I agree.

But, again, saying "nobody is listening" seemingly
presumes there's some "correct" or at least "better"
or at least stronger or more appropriate or ...
reading that we're missing out on here.  I'd like some
idea, at least, of what that might be.  Too much
dodging behind "those who know, know" here, methinks. 
Well, if you know, clue the rest of us in then.  Try. 
Sometimes feel like I'm on a porchful of smug and
bitter old jazz fans or somesuch ...

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