Pynchonesque Rushdie

[Ya Sam]

1. No
>doubt  there exist  thousands of people in the world whose tastes might 
>bear  a rough correspondence to our own.  Alas we are not likely to ever  
>meet any  of these strangers.
>
2. But anyway what are you reading?

1. Sad but true. On the other hand it would be disturbing to meet someone 
with exactly the same tastes as your own, that would kinda rob you of your 
own uniqueness.

2. I already posted it somewhere, but see no problem in repeating. I don't 
want to embark on anything mammoth as the inevitability of AtD's publication 
comes crashing around my ears, so the list is not long.
1. I just finished A Brief History of Time by Hawking and was surprised to 
find it challenging and obscure for myself as many people with solid 
background in physics (whom I envy and equally respect) said that it was a 
very lucid and extremely easy introduction into the subject. Not for me, 
unfortunately, so I will think twice before getting that mountainous Penrose 
book, The Road to Reality.
2. I'm reading the British edition of Lawrence Norfolk's Lempriere's 
Dictionary (very important, as the American one was cut). It is evidently 
influenced by Eco and Pyncon, but to my delight, the guy isn't another 
epigone, the range of his erudition and the stylistic pyrotechnics are quite 
impressive, especially if you're aware that he wrote it in his mid-twenties.
3. Flaubert's Bouvard et Pecuchet, a predecessor of the contemporary 
encyclopedic narrative, I would say, it is also a very dense read.

That would be it, at least until I finish AtD which might be as late as 
March or even April ...or even later.

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