ATD: ad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel

[jd]

Ulysses is a pretty great book...  I think it can be followed well as
a story once you get into the so-called "flow" of it without knowing
every nuance of Dublin, and I do in fact enjoy the style.  FW is an
ongoing debate for me, though of course I've never made it all the way
through the actual text itself - at times I'll consider it genius, at
other times downright stupid and pointless.  It is however the most
wonderful of all meta-fiction, being the book that seems best read by
not reading it at all (instead, by reading a book about it).

On 8/10/06, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Worse yet, forced to read Joyce. Not that one (such as I) cannot enjoy a great deal of Finnegan's Wake without really understanding it---and lord knows, I've tried---but in, let us say, Gravity's Rainbow (the most daunting and Joyce-laden of TRPs tomes), Pynchon's index of intelligibility is much higher than Joyce's in "Wake". As Tom Leherer once put it "If one cannot communicate, the very least one can do is to shut up." I've given two full passes to "FW" and one to "Ulysses" and find Pynchon's m.o. a lot easier to swallow. No doubt Joyce's work has a greater opportunity to make it's presence known in "Against The Day" than in any other volume by TRP, considering the historical locus and our author's obsessions.
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> From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
> > This sentiment is nice and egalitarian, but it's hard to believe when one is
> > forced to confront the genius of Joyce...
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> > Ghetta
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> > >From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
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> > >but i'm really not caring all that much about it, like this tit for tat
> > >about the greatest writer in english. in library school we were taught the
> > >right book for the right person. pynchon happens to be it for many of us
> > >but it's not like it means anything
> > >
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