NPPF Comm 2: Recap, schedule, etc

[Jasper Fidget]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of Don Corathers
> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 10:55 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: NPPF Comm 2: Recap, schedule, etc
> 

> 
> As for the schedule: no objection here to going back to the original plan
> or
> some semblance of it, or anyway beginning the next session as soon as
> Jasper's ready to post his notes, which I suspect is probably right now.
> This novel uniquely demands to be considered all at once anyway--maybe we
> should consider compressing the reading schedule from the original one-
> week
> per session scheme, letting them overlap.
> 

My notes for the next section remain messy, and it may be several days
before I can make them coherent.  I'd also like to look some more through
Kinbote's bedroom but haven't had the time -- your notes sent me off in
several new directions.  Great work, Don.

Anybody have any cross-Pynchon ideas re the Glass Factory explosion and fire
(110, 120) and the "fall of a crystal palace" in GR?  Might the reference
even be the same (in part)?  There are lots of crystals in both books....

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/extra/crystal.html

This one leaps out immediately: "half-mythical cottagers from New York
lapsing back now to green wilderness [...], all the crystal windows every
single one smashed" 28

Jasper