eGad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel

[Ya Sam]

Yeah, that's a pertinent question. Although at the present moment I'm more 
obsessed with another one, the one everybody on the p-list must be fed up 
with (I asked it several times). Let me paraphrase it: How come on the 
gaddis list they have this precious, limited edition, etc. catalogue, and 
none on the p-list has it? If this thing is real, are we talking about some 
hard-to-get GALLEYS of a CATALOGUE, available only to a limited set of 
people? Once that question is answered the discussion on the list might 
become a little bit more focussed. It's better to deal with a real excerpt 
than with reportedly/reputedly such. Although I'm inclined to think it is. 
Sounds pretty Pynchonian to me.


>From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: eGad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel
>Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:07:31 -0400
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>On Aug 4, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Ya Sam wrote:
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>>>... but now imagine it's 1987 and you've been handed a
>>>brief excerpt from the forthcoming M&D ...
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>>Hmm. The style of M&D, which I have to admit is sustained  throughout the 
>>novel, is a different thing altogether. Pynchon  achieved a skilful 
>>recreation of the 18th century English literary  text. To tell the truth I 
>>recently got hooked to literature of that  period  and caught myself at 
>>the thought that what I was reading  was ripped off straight from M&D and 
>>The Sotweed-Factor. However,  if we're talking about an intentionally bad 
>>pulpish style, like  that of the excerpt, Pynchon has a tendency to segue 
>>from that kind  of writing into baroque verbose fugues, and back again. 
>>It's his  staple.
>>I'm convinced it's impossible to make a notion about the whole  thing on 
>>the basis of such a short sample, and even with M&D, well,  it is not that 
>>homogenious. As to the why this particular excerpt  has been chosen, if 
>>it's not novel-within-a-novel, I can make  another, altogether heretical 
>>conjecture: It is the beginning of  the novel (please don't rush to stone 
>>me yet!)
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>Good thinking, Ya Sam. I don't necessarily believe you're correct,  but 
>you're focussing on the right question. Why was this particular  passage 
>chosen?
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