breaking it down

[snappydresser]

Jesus Fucking Nailholes!

Bury me upside down if this doesn't sound like THE ONE WE'VE ALL BEEN 
WAITING FOR!!!

YOPJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Rice" <jrice024 at hotmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 2:48 AM
Subject: breaking it down


> couldn't tell if this was out there yet or not, but here we go...
> -
> Amazon.com, under 'Editorial Reviews': (!!!)
>
> Book Description
>
> Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years 
> just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in 
> Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice 
> and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the 
> mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, 
> silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the 
> map at all.
>
> With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of 
> unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and 
> evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or 
> should be inferred.
>
> The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, 
> corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, 
> mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, 
> spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo 
> appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.
>
> As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an 
> unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to 
> pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's 
> their lives that pursue them.
>
> Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what 
> they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange 
> sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always 
> idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the 
> world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. 
> According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.
>
> Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.
>
> --Thomas Pynchon
>
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