AtD excerpt - "got-damn pinkinroller"

[Ya Sam]

As I already said it all depends on the reader. I know a person who begins a 
novel by reading the last page (it's not an anecdote I picked up from this 
Billy Cristal movie, there are really such people). I'm not that kind of 
person. Nor am I an oversensitive type who would not watch the cover art on 
amazon until his copy arrives... I do possess enormous curiosity that might 
eventually 'spoil' something for me. Don't know yet what... But I don't 
consider the osteopath episode to be a major spoiler, that's for sure.



>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>To: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>, dedalus204 at comcast.net, 
>pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: AtD excerpt - "got-damn pinkinroller"
>Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 14:41:02 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Well, pretty much anything ever written on, say, GR up
>to and including jacket copy will give away that much,
>and then some.  That "book description" for AD gives
>away even more.  In neither case have I felt/do I feel
>that I've been told all too much of anything.  My
>point I guess was, on the one hand, it's what gets
>done with such elements, and, on the other, puzzling
>over why that that's the real work of reading.
>Pynchon in particular simply overwhelms the ability of
>anyone to "spoil" (much less summarize, and then
>there's explain ...) even the briefest of his books
>(another interesting exercise: summarize Beckett;
>"Beckett in his first book wrote about, wrote about,
>uh, well ...").  Not to worry ...
>
>--- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >Just what would constitute a spoiler?
> >
> > I think that depends on the sensitivity of an
> > individual reader. For some it would be the
> > disclosure of (one of) the main plotlines (e.g.
> > an American lieutenant's erections seem to be
> > related to the V-2 rocket), for others some
> > background info (e.g. time and place, historical
> > personages etc.)....
>
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