Fw: Pynchon off-topic finished

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They're talking about Nabokov on the Pynchon list and Pynchon on the Gaddis
list. My God is there no respect for the SANCTITY of these lists? It's an
outrage.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Moore" <smoore3 at worldnet.att.net>
To: <gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 5:10 PM
Subject: eGad: Pynchon off-topic finished


I didn't mean to broadcast my message to Mark to everyone, but in case
anyone's interested, the passage I was looking for is as follows (courtesy
John Krafft of Pynchon Notes):
"All very well to talk about having a monster by the tail, but do you think
we'd've had the Rocket if someone, some specific somebody with a name and a
penis hadn't wanted to chuck a ton of Amatol 300 miles and blow up a block
full of civilians? Go ahead, capitalize the T on technology, deify it if
it'll make you feel less responsible--but it puts you in with the neutered,
brother, in with the eunuchs keeping the harem of our stolen Earth for the
numb and joyless hardons of human sultans, human elite with no right at all
to be where they are--" (p. 521 in old Viking edition).
----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Moore <smoore3 at worldnet.att.net>
To: <gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: eGad: Re: Pynchon off-topic


> Thanks, Mark. They have a few Pynchon texts but not GR.
> But this URL will be useful in other ways: I work for Borders and have
been
> put in charge of bringing out our own line of classics. I'm discovering
that
> many e-texts out there are lousy, so this gives me some alternative texts
to
> look at.)
> Steve
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: markadouglas <markadouglas at prodigy.net>
> To: <gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:38 PM
> Subject: eGad: Re: Pynchon off-topic
>
>
> > Steven,
> >
> > the url for the site you remember is
> >
>
http://textz.gnutenberg.net/index.php3?enhanced_version=http://textz.com/ind
> ex.php3
> >
> > Plenty of interesting things on this site.
> >
> > Peace
> >
> > Mark
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Steven Moore
> >   To: gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com
> >   Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 3:58 PM
> >   Subject: eGad: Pynchon off-topic
> >
> >
> >   Two things: (1) Pynchon has an excellent introduction in the new Plume
> edition of Orwell's <1984,> if you haven't seen it.
> >   (2) During our earlier discussion about e-texts, did someone say
> <Gravity's Rainbow> is on-line somewhere? I need to track down a quote,
> about the personal nature of political violence, something like "a bomb
> wouldn't exist unless a man with a name and a dick didn't want to lob a
> chunk of {something} onto someone else's head." Ring any bells?
> >   Steve