AtD RE: ATD Spoilers

Carvill John johncarvill at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 29 10:17:29 CST 2006


Of course, of course. Plot is, for me, largely incidental in general, not 
just in Pynchon. Yet if I but a classic, say 'Crime & Punishment', I always 
read the introduction last. I assume most people do that? Just cause I'm not 
reading a book *for* the plot, doesn't mean I want the plot revealed to me 
in advance.

I'd love to read a nice long ATD excerpt, I've enjoyed the epigraph, section 
titles, first few lines, etc. which have filtered out. BUt I'm not about to 
go browsing through the ATD wiki for people, places, or themes which'll crop 
up in the book.

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to tell me, as I was starting GR, that there's 
this great sequence featuring Malcolm X, a mouth orgam, and the Roseland 
Ballroom toilets.......



>"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.
>
>

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