ATD: RE: eGad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel (fwd)

Carlos Ferrão carlosferrao at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 10:27:07 CDT 2006


The whole world is against you, isn't it? And all those who oppose you are
together.

On 04/08/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I also have heard from an authoritative source who
> requests anonymity that the excerpt is genuine, i.e.
> from Against the Day.
>
> If proven wrong, I'll apologize.
>
> Thank You Very Very Very Much.
>
> P.S.  Carlos - even the blandest statement attracts
> flak in this forum, as you have demonstrated re my
> cautious prediction about ATD reception, posted to
> counter the equally simplistic and stupid (how can
> anybody judge a book without reading it?) notion that
> the novel is shit and will be received as such.  So,
> in the friendliest way possible, I'll say your
> response was dumber than what you seem to have assumed
> you were mocking.  You'll need to think a few steps
> ahead of that, generally, if you want to flourish here
> with the Stooges who dog my posts instead of writing
> new stuff of their own. Thank you for giving me the
> opportunity to give you this constructive feedback,
> and to ask one question:  do you really want to ally
> yourself with illiterate and braindead "Morris", A
> Grown Man Who Calls Himself Malign, and a Pynchon
> scholar who plays fast and loose with sources?  Your
> choice.
>
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> http://pynchonoid.org
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>
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