AtD RE: ATD Spoilers

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

"Pynchon's novels aren't really about 'whodunit' - not for me, anyway. Reading Pynchon for me is all about savouring the prose, page by page, sentence by sentence, while trying to detect larger structural and thematic patterns. It's about trying to keep the local and global details in my head all at once, enjoying the beauty and complexity of it all. And a spoiler or two won't detract from that pleasure."

Eggs Ackley. The Crying Of Lot 49 is the ultimate anti-whodunnit, Gravity's Rainbow ends in freefall, the narritive vehicle breaking up into smaller and smaller pieces before the whole novel crashes into our theater, & M & D ends with a nod to Bono. Seriously, could you imagine AtD being hawked on TV with one of those 30 second spots, like the ones used for James Patterson novels?

"Might I suggest the relatively simple expedient that any AtD-related post includes "AtD" in the subject line? (I think Doug suggested this already). Those readers who don't like spoilers of any kind can simply avoid these posts, then, and the rest of us can speculate and discuss and guess all we like, without worrying that our innocent musings will spoil the pleasure for others."

Might we consider this a Mac & Tosh moment?

http://www.toonopedia.com/gophers.htm

And I'll head all of mine with "AtD" instead if "ATD", because it looks ever so much nicer, don't you think?