Cricket in ATD

[Dave Monroe]

Welcome!  Thanks!  This will prove invaluable info, do
think at least about signing on/annotating @ ...

http://pynchonwiki.com/

... as well.  But keep in mind, while I doubt this has
ruined any plotlines for anyone still in progress
(like myself, but then again, I skipped ahead to the
last line first thing, so ...), you might want to add
a "spoiler alert" or somesuch to yr subject when
skipping so far ahead (esp. as we'll be [re]starting
in earnest as a group Jan. 22nd).  E.g. "ATD 756
Spoiler" or somesuch (though, again, this isn't an
issue to me personally).  Anyway ...

--- Nick Halliwell <nick.halliwell at btclick.com> wrote:

> 
> I've just joined this list today as I'm now around
> 770 pages into Against The Day. This is the first
> of Mr Pynchon's books I've read, I'm ashamed to
> say, but I am absolutely captivated and it won't be
> the last. 

Can ANYONE else here say that?  Do keep posting, 'cos
you're likley going to have a persepctive that no one
else here canm possibly have anymore.  Plus, I knew
this might prove one of his most accessible novels,
page/character/plotlin counts be damned ...

> More than anything I'm astonished that Mr Pynchon,
> an American author, is clearly so well-versed in
> the game of cricket.

The acary thing is, Pynchon at least seems (though he
has at times revealed the skeletal research on which
the flesh of his facts and the musculatures of his
histories hang) well-versed in EVERYTHING.  Peruse,
for example, that wiki linked above.  But everything
from physics to philately, from the instrumentaion of
New World exploration to the economics of the
artificial dye industry to the politics of Central
Asian transliteration to ...
 
> I should probably start by declaring an interest:
> as an Englishman the game of cricket is an important
> part of my own cultural make-up. It seems to crop
> up very regularly in ATD and I'm curious as to how
> on earth Mr Pynchon comes to know so much about our
> summer game?

THAT, however, might be his crowning achievement. 
Again, thanks for the rest here, do remind of us of
all of it plus any ensuing discussion when we hit that
section again in the group read (in fact, think
seriously about hosting that section when it comes
up--oh, Tim ...).  Again, welcome and thanks!




 
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