First ATD hatchet job

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And there's lots of Serious Poetry in Against the day.

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From: "David Casseres" <david.casseres at gmail.com>
> On 11/15/06, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I also wonder about the acolytes screed us Pynchon readers get tagged with.
> > Pynchon brings to the table a large amount of things that for anyone curious
> > leads to more and more innocent investigation of a disparate range of
> > topics.
> > we're not reading the Torah but a writer who sparks the imagination to find
> > out about the world out there. good writing leads to good reading which
> > leads to other good writing, etc...
> > one of the things I think that makes Pynchon more attractive than say
> > Joyce--Joyce wanted you to study him for a lifetime. Pynchon is the
> > anti-Joyce in that regard
> 
> Well said.  We're no different than the folks who read and re-read
> Homer, for the enjoyment, or who take Shakespeare seriously enough to
> read the plays after we're out of school, or, for that matter, the
> folks who read serious poetry at all.