Doing my part to reduce traffic on the P-list. And what You Cand Do!

[Ya Sam]

I have resigned myself with the fact that I will be the last on the list to 
get my copy (it will arrive in December) so I'm absolutely philosophical 
about that. Anyway it won't be a fast read, and I do sympathise with the 
reviewers who have to swallow this Leviathan in several weeks, they must be 
suffering from intellectual indigestion now.
Something even more modest that I recently received: Vollmann's The 
Ice-Shirt. And you know what: the sellers are damn rogues, it was indicated 
that the copy was 'as new', imagine my surprise when I realised that I got a 
shabby ex-library copy. There is no point in sending it back as I'm pretty 
sure that I will lose even more money in that case. It wasn't that expensive 
in the first place. Are there any Alibris victims on the list?


>From: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>CC: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
>Subject: RE: Doing my part to reduce traffic on the P-list. And what You 
>Cand Do!
>Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:35:33 +0100
>
>>From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
>>
>>So, uh, like . . .  I got a copy of ATD, so's I'm probably going off in 
>>the corner for a while. I think I >might be busy.
>
>Yeah, well. I won't give you the pleasure of saying that I envy you like 
>hell (BUT I DO; GIMMEGIMMEGIMME!!). I just received something more modest, 
>but still nice: The new edition of GR with the cover by Frank Miller. It's 
>actually pretty nice. The back cover is a reproduction of a dramatic and 
>colorful scene from a German D-Day leaflet, showing bombs raining down on a 
>burning London, including that Tower Bridge. The front inner flap just 
>contains those well-known opening words "A screaming comes across the sky", 
>and the back flap contains the text of William Slothrop's closing hymn. 
>Nice touch...
>Next shipment from Amazon: The new paperback edition of Lot 49 + 
>Weisenburger's expanded and updated companion to GR. A-and then Against the 
>Day. A-a-and finally Zak Smith's illustrations to GR.
>In all my years as a Pynchon fan, I can't recall a Miraculous Month like 
>this one. This year, Christmas is definitely in November.
>
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