Language of AtD

[Lary Wallace]

Amen, Rich. Wouldn't have put it better mysef. That pretty much says it. 


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From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
Cc: p-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 11:49:31 AM
Subject: Re: Language of AtD

I'm done with the first section--it is a lovable burst of verbiage to get lost in; got the be-bop flips, goofy pratfalls, learned musings on the concrete and the abstract, in short a very mature writer at work
it's less zany but still crazy 
fuck the critics and their War

rich


On 11/23/06, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote: 

On Nov 23, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Ya Sam wrote:

> I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive, but I would like to know 
> from those already reading it about the difficulty of the language,
> is it something that would keep you consulting OED every now and
> then (like GR and M&D) or is it less difficult (Lot 49



Very easy if you're a native speaker and an American.

Much that is non-standard English and folksy however.

A lot of it sounds like Zoyd Wheeler.



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