Non-spoilerish first impression of AtD on Modern Word site

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 4, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Mike Beiderbecke wrote:

> Well,
>
>     I have read slightly more than twenty-five pages.
>     All the hallmarks of what we (or at least I) have come to love  
> about TRP
> are there. Weird names, strange songs, frustrating allusions (fact or
> fiction?), long paragraphs, ellipsis, long shaggy-doggish things  
> that lead
> to horrible puns, et cetera.
>     Closer in style to GR than his other novels, but at the same time
> incorporating elements that have appeared in his writing both pre-  
> and post-
> GR.


But please no more going to the little boys' room because the men's  
room was full . . .


>     Perhaps best summed up, IMHO, as a progressive knotting into.....
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>> This alluring set of first impressions of AtD (without any plot  
>> spoilers)
>> only continues to whet my appetite:
>
>> http://themodernword.com/pynchon/paper_earlyatd.html
>