Mortality & Mercy in Vienna...

[Glenn Scheper]

Semper fi? I prefer fast-text. Here is a process that will
really speed your intake of Mortality and Mercy In Vienna,
*IF* you're comfortable with the Windows Command Prompt:
 
Download these freewares of mine, save to C:\windows or c:\winnt
http://fp3.antelecom.net/scheper/surf16.exe
http://fp3.antelecom.net/scheper/wt.exe
Btw, here's a new home page I'm working on, showing those wares:
http://fp3.antelecom.net/scheper/wip.htm
 
Download this other freeware, save it to C:\windows or c:\winnt
Reading Acceleration Machine 3.5 
http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/classical/ram/ram.html
 
Make an empty directory, edit file list.txt containing 3 lines:
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_mortality.html
http://www.vheissu.be/bio/eng/eng_vienna.htm
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/vienna.html
 
In that directory, say surf16. It fetches all urls in list.txt,
making text, converting accents and fancy punctuation to USACII.
They will appear in pynchonm.htm, engvienn.htm and vienna.htm.
 
That fixes the character set. Now we'll get rid of the anchors:
Open one file in IE. Saying "explorer pynchonm.htm" will do it.
Select all the text, copy it, paste it into notepad and save it.
Do that with the others. I saved as pyn.txt, eng.txt, vie.txt.
 
That rid the links. Next optimize the wrapping to end-of-clauses,
by applying the Wrap Text command WT.EXE with a "." flag:
wt . pyn.txt > p
wt . eng.txt > e
wt . vie.txt > v
 
You now have three almost identical files to diff for typo's.
 
And, files p, e, and v are ready to read in RAM35. Having ram35
in your path, start it: "ram35". I used Windows Explorer to drag
file P onto the running app ram35. Or, open file P, and type "A"
for AUTO. At defaults, you'll finish reading MMIV in 16 minutes.
 
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Now, for my two bits on MMIV after 3 readings: running/cunning?
That's a cheap joke. But, my eyes opened on the description of
the Ojibwa indian, as essentially identical to my (non-indian)
youth: An avoidant narcissistic puer-aeternus, insular soldier
of self-sufficiency, being given no goals but to avoid failure,
abject as from the womb, certainly unable to integrate socially,
superego making hungry as an Ojibwa, despite beaver all around.
Discovering my autoeroticism, as I claim can be read in Pynchon,
produced psychosis. That reflexive carnal speech act laid bare
gnosis, but it's taken me two decades since to find me fellows
in the poets as co-gnostics. How old was Pynchon writing? 29?
 
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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