Saunders' novel?

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Thanks for the links!

"Magic is in fact hard and honorable work, and cannot be deployed at whim, not without consequences." 

"None of your secular Wellsian tricks with refractive indices and blood pigmentation here, but rather the well-known and time-honored arts of ceasing to be material."

"He takes the Diamond, and then the Diamond takes him. For it turns out to be a gateway to elsewhere, and Daniel's life's tale an account of the incarnation of a god, not the usual sort that ends up bringing aid and comfort to earthly powers, but that favorite of writers, the incorruptible wiseguy known to anthropologists as the Trickster, to working alchemists as Hermes, to card-players everywhere as the Joker. We don't learn this till the end of the story, by which point, knowing Daniel as we've come to, we are free to take it literally as a real transfiguration, or as a metaphor of spiritual enlightenment, or as a description of Daniel's unusually exalted state of mind as he prepares to cross, forever, the stone junction between Above and Below -- by this point, all of these possibilities have become equally true, for we have been along on one of those indispensable literary journeys, taken nearly as far as Daniel -- through it is for him to slip along across the last borderline
, into what Wittgenstein once supposed cannot be spoken of, and upon which, as Eliphaz Levi advised us -- after "To know, to will, to dare" as the last and greatest of the rules of Magic -- we must keep silent."

Thomas Pynchon; Introduction to "Stone Junction"


Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck . . .
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From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> BLURBS! from Thomas Pynchon
> 
> http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/blurbs.html
> 
> Pynchon's Essays, Reviews, Introductions & Blurbs
> 
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays.html
> 
> How to get a blurb from Thomas Pynchon
> 
> http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/10/15/pynchon_blurb/index.html
> 
> --- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure about the whole 'inheritance' thing,
> > but didn't Pynchon write a couple of favourable
> > words about this writer?
> 
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