Yet Another Plea to Stay Pynchon-Focused

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 09:47, Elainemmbell at aol.com wrote:
> Just a reminder:  I wrote you about "Entropy".  Maybe you haven't read that 
> yet.  But it pertains, arguably I realize, to WHY SLSL has indeed bent toward 
> being, as you say, "a bust".  I don't think it's us this time. (humbly 
> speaking for 91% of available and involved entities)


Back the last time we were waiting for a new Pynchon novel to come out
we had a group reading (as much a group reading as group readings ever
are) of Infinite Jest. I recall its being quite interesting. Out of it
materialized the Wallace List, of which several of us became charter
subscribers.  Unfortunately it is impossible to think of a current book
that might rescue the p-list from its present moment. Please don't
anyone say Moby Dick or Tristram Shandy. The book would have to be
current and not already written-about to death. The fact of the matter
is, there just isn't anything new coming out. That I know about anyway.

Drat.

P.