breaking it down

[Ya Sam]

Gosh, looks like a mammoth predecessor (in chronological terms) of GR.

BTW: Did Pynchon himself write this description or did he write only the 
final words ("Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.")??




>From: "snappydresser" <snappydresser at rogers.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: breaking it down
>Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:40:32 -0400
>
>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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