Against the Day/Songs

[Dave Monroe]

Good morning, America! ...

--- Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Anyway, I just wanted to comment on the various
> bits of speculation about the title Against the
> Day.  It seems that this is all in a piece with a
> significant (to my mind at least) thematic element
> in GR, that of preterition.  If so, the part in
> Pynchon's blurb (I cling to the belief that it was
> him!) ...

If you believe in Pynchon, clap your hands.  You are
correct, sir ...

> ... that begged off any comparison of the Day in
> the title to the present is at least a little
> disingenuous ... 

To say the least ...

> ... considering how many American foax are of the
> belief that, to paraphrase Robert Anton Wilson,
> the eschaton is immanent ...

As does, I think, Pynchon, albeit perhaps for
different reasons than some, even as he lam- to
outright har- poons various such reactions ...

> But I digress (I'm on the Pynchon list, so
> digressions are welcome, right?)

They are de rigueur.  The List IS a digression, the
List is Digression, a digression of digressions ... 

> My point is that an element that was prevalent in
> GR of those who struggle against the idea of
> apocalypse seems to be front & center in this
> latest novel ...

Or, at least, so far, on both the front and back
covers (or will that be on the inner dust jacket
fold?) ...

> ... at least as far as these mysterious missives
> are concerned.  That warms my heart considerably,
> not that I would shun any work by Mr. Pynchon at
> this point regardless ...

Et soforthiam ...
 
> Anyway, I blather on too long.

You have not yet begun to blather.  Blather is as
blather does.  He ain't heavy, he's my blather ...  

Blather on, dude!

Wilkommen!  Man, this is getting fun again.  Thanks,
Chris, thanks, all, and, most of all, thank you,
Thomas  Ruggles Pynchon, Jr., esq.  I really needed
this ...

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