newbie alert

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

V and CoL49 (much as I admire them) are warm-up exercises for the
mature performance: GR. (They may even have been seen as such at the
time by P. Look at how much of that swell V-material P avoided in the
composition of V! I believe that GR was in utero, so to speak, while V
was being written.)

It is presumtuous of us inveterate P-readers to wave our mighty sticks
around just because *we* have the right stuff: lots of people don't
like it, but GR isn't that difficult. It isn't that hard. *It was
written to be read.* It was written to be read by readers who don't
already have every scrap of relevant data. One doesn't need some
post-grad fellow walking them through it in a classroom somewhere. One
doesn't need to read it with a half-dozen reference texts open on the
floor around one's feet. It isn't any longer, really, than Gone With
The Wind. (From a recent Simpsons episode: "Nothin' cracks a turtle
like Leon Uris!") It is better, funnier, more frightening, true and
rewarding than anything I've ever read, especially in this case V and
CoL49. 

Mark


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