ATD: ad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 8, 2006, at 8:46 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:

>
> To me this all seems like excuse making.  The 1st paragraph of GR  
> is beautiful, albeit difficult.  The same is true of the 1st  
> paragraph of MD.  So the question remains:  Why would this one be  
> the representative nibble to hit the streets?  It's almost as if  
> someone is trying to make AD bomb.

Better to suspend disbelief for a few months and assume the latter  
possibility is not the  case.

Several p-listers have observed the fact  that it's  a near certainty  
the passage is part of a story within a story. Though the early post- 
war period saw the culmination of modernism in  writing,  it also   
witnessed the rise in popularity of cheap pulp fiction. So I ask,   
if  if Gravity's Rainbow's anti-hero can be a naive  American  
lieutenant,  why can't an Against-the-Day protagonist be a western  
pulp writer.  (not necessarily a naive one)


>
> Ghetta
>
>> From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>>
>> When I come to think of it, what could be 'the most  
>> representative' passage out of GR? Suppose, just suppose (it  
>> would've been impossible, but still) that Penguin Press published  
>> in its catalogue the scene with Katje and Brigadier Pudding, what  
>> would be the first reaction to the forthcoming novel?
>>
>
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