breaking it down

[Paul Mackin]

On Jul 15, 2006, at 10:18 AM, Ya Sam wrote:

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


the whole thing sounded like him.

so it could be all a joke.

hope not.


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>> 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!
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>> 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
>>
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>>> 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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