Lempriere's Dictionary
Toby G Levy
tobylevy at juno.com
Fri Jul 29 08:57:31 CDT 2005
The Pope's Rhinocerous by Norfolk was published by Owl at 574 pages.
Nice try, though!
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:16:39 +0000
> From: "Dustin Iler" <osirx277 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Lempriere's Dictionary
>
> My American copy is 574 pages in length. Owl Press, I think.
>
> >From: Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com>
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: Re: Lempriere's Dictionary
> >Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:45:46 -0400
> >
> >This is a book I took from the library, read a few pages and then
> bought
> >a copy, but then never went back and read it. I want to get around
> to it
> >one of these days.
> >
> >Interestingly, a friend told me that the British edition is
> significantly
> >longer than the American and I just did some surfing and can verify
> that
> >the American edition had 422 pages while the British 530.
> Evidently
> >Random House thought there was some "fat" that needed to be
> trimmed.
> >
> >So here's your challenge, Joe. Find the British edition and read
> it and
> >report on what was left out!
> >
> >Toby
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:00:06 -0500
> owner-pynchon-l-digest at waste.org
> >(pynchon-l-digest) writes:
> > >
> > > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:41:05 -0400
> > > From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: Lempriere's Dictionary
> > >
> > > Have any P-listers read this Lawrence Norfolk novel? Lots of
> > > Pynchon
> > > allusions including a character called O'Trystero and lots of
> > > conspiracy stuff surrounding British East India Company.
> > >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:49:58 -0400
> From: "Henry Musikar" <hmusikar at speakeasy.net>
> Subject: NP: Bad Writing
>
> http://tinyurl.com/beute
>
> Henry
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:50:14 +0200
> From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
> Subject: AW: Lempriere's Dictionary
>
> "I am a barbarian here, because I am not understood by anyone."
>
> Even barbarians can love good books...
>
> Otto
>
> - -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] Im
> Auftrag
> von David Meury
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 14:59
> An: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Betreff: AW: Lempriere's Dictionary
>
> Gee, Otto. Some of us don't understand Latin or
> German. You must think we're barbarians or something.
>
> ***
> "Barbarus hic ego sum, qui non intelligor ulli."
> "Hier bin auch ich nur Barbar, weil niemand mich
> verstehen kann."
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________________________
> Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB Speicher kostenlos - Hier
> anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:29:03 +1000
> From: jbor at bigpond.com
> Subject: Re: Cavitch: Remembering George Washington
>
> "Pynchon's scene has its basis in fact: Washington did grow hemp at
>
> Mount Vernon, whence it was sold to rope and textile makers. For the
>
> license he took, Pynchon could have found inspiration in Alfred
> Quiroz's 1994 painting, 'George Washington Inspects the Hemp Crop',
> in
> which Washington shares a toke with two merry companions." (FN, p.
> 270)
>
> Not sure whether it was "license" or just a safe bet on Pynchon's
> part.
> Cavitch's assessment of Pynchon's characterisation of GW is apt.
>
> best
>
> On 24/07/2005, at 8:48 AM, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
>
> > 'The Man That Was Used Up: Poetry, Particularity, and the Politics
> of
> > Remembering George Washington' by Max Cavitch
> > _American Literature_ 75.2, June 2003, pp. 247-274.
> >
> > Abstract: Focuses on the contribution of US President George
> > Washington to American literature. Symbolism on national cultural
>
> > process of postrepublican transformation; disembodiment of
> political
> > power in modern nationalism; conceptualisation of political
> tradition
> > interposes itself between citizen-subject and their
> self-actualizing
> > polities.
> >
> > Excerpts:
> > "[...] As contributors to this ongoing work of remembrance,
> writers of
> > fiction, like so many historians, biographers, and exhibit
> curators,
> > have sought to portray a Washington more personally compelling
> than
> > the abstract or monumental figure he commonly strikes; a
> Washington
> > not yet purged of singularity; a Washington of depth, interiority,
>
> > even edginess. For example, at one point in Thomas Pynchon's
> novel,
> > _Mason & Dixon_ ... " (p. 248)
> >
> > Pdf available.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:55:18 +0200
> From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
> Subject: AW: Cavitch: Remembering George Washington
>
> "Make the most of the Indian hemp seed,
> and sow it everywhere!"
> http://www.taima.org/en/quotes.htm#washington
>
> But why must it be the Indian hemp?
>
> Otto
>
> - -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] Im
> Auftrag
> von jbor at bigpond.com
> Gesendet: Freitag, 29. Juli 2005 00:29
> An: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Betreff: Re: Cavitch: Remembering George Washington
>
> "Pynchon's scene has its basis in fact: Washington did grow hemp at
>
> Mount Vernon, whence it was sold to rope and textile makers. For the
>
> license he took, Pynchon could have found inspiration in Alfred
> Quiroz's 1994 painting, 'George Washington Inspects the Hemp Crop',
> in
> which Washington shares a toke with two merry companions." (FN, p.
> 270)
>
> Not sure whether it was "license" or just a safe bet on Pynchon's
> part.
> Cavitch's assessment of Pynchon's characterisation of GW is apt.
>
> best
>
> On 24/07/2005, at 8:48 AM, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
>
> > 'The Man That Was Used Up: Poetry, Particularity, and the Politics
> of
> > Remembering George Washington' by Max Cavitch
> > _American Literature_ 75.2, June 2003, pp. 247-274.
> >
> > Abstract: Focuses on the contribution of US President George
> > Washington to American literature. Symbolism on national cultural
>
> > process of postrepublican transformation; disembodiment of
> political
> > power in modern nationalism; conceptualisation of political
> tradition
> interposes itself between citizen-subject and their self-actualizing
>
> > polities.
> >
> > Excerpts:
> > "[...] As contributors to this ongoing work of remembrance,
> writers of
> > fiction, like so many historians, biographers, and exhibit
> curators,
> > have sought to portray a Washington more personally compelling
> than
> > the abstract or monumental figure he commonly strikes; a
> Washington
> > not yet purged of singularity; a Washington of depth, interiority,
>
> > even edginess. For example, at one point in Thomas Pynchon's
> novel,
> > _Mason & Dixon_ ... " (p. 248)
> >
> > Pdf available.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________________________
> Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB Speicher kostenlos - Hier
> anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:29:39 -0400
> From: Erik Roland Ketzan <erk8 at pitt.edu>
> Subject: the Kenosha Kid Project needs your help!
>
> Ok, gents:
>
> Here's a website I created using the scans that Paul graciously sent
> me:
>
> http://kenoshakid.wikispaces.org/
>
> It's a wiki to get the process of editing the Kenosha Kid story done
>
> quickly and efficiently. We need volunteers to visit the site and
> compare the OCR (optical character recognition) texts with the scans
>
> by Paul. If you're interested, drop by and lend a hand.
>
> Erik
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:03:34 -0400
> From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: the Kenosha Kid Project needs your help!
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erik Roland Ketzan" <erk8 at pitt.edu>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:29 PM
> Subject: the Kenosha Kid Project needs your help!
>
>
> > Ok, gents:
> >
> > Here's a website I created using the scans that Paul graciously
> sent me:
> >
> > http://kenoshakid.wikispaces.org/
> >
> > It's a wiki to get the process of editing the Kenosha Kid story
> done
> > quickly and efficiently. We need volunteers to visit the site and
>
> > compare the OCR (optical character recognition) texts with the
> scans
> > by Paul. If you're interested, drop by and lend a hand.
> >
> > Erik
>
> Good job Erik. I just did page 25.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> End of pynchon-l-digest V2 #4408
> ********************************
>
> To unsubscribe, send a message to waste at waste.org
> with "unsubscribe pynchon-l-digest" in the message body.
>
>
More information about the Pynchon-l
mailing list