AtD RE: ATD Spoilers

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 29, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Carvill John wrote:

> 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.......
>

Fair enough. I don't intend to reveal these type things without  
without the AtD warning label

However an awful lot of what seems to me like very important stuff  
has been revealed here already, although a diligent person could  
probably have avoided them.