An Old Hand, Back for the New Ride

[David Casseres]

Oh, we're gonna have a good time.

On 9/26/06, Joe Varo <vjvaro at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>  Welcome back.  I did much the same thing -- signed off shortly after the
> first slow read of M&D and just rejoined about a month ago in preparation
> for Against the Day.
>
>
>
>  On 9/26/2006 6:53 PM, Will Layman wrote:
> Hey, Foax!
>
>  I've been off and on the list a bunch of times since -- SHIT! -- 1994 or
> so.  With AtD knocking at our door, I had to sign back on.
>
>  To my old friends Paul Mackin, DaveMarc, Henry Mu and others, HOWDY
> PARDNERS.
>
>  If I'd been around more the last five years, I surely would have said a
> bunch of inflammatory stuff (like, uh, how could ANYONE think that Japan
> interview was authentic?) and I surely would have written a whole bunch
> about jazz, and I'm pretty sure I would have stuck up for INFINITE JEST,
> because someone is always attacking it, and I probably would have mentioned
> that I did read THE CLOUD ATLAS but it just kind of bored me after a while,
> despite its formal brilliance.
>
>  And I would have said that the best thing in my library is a paperback copy
> of V., made special by something I'm not sure even I believe is real, plus
> first printing hardcover AND softcover GRs -- the best.
>
>  Now, somebody:  piss me off!
>
>  -- Will Layman, DC Area Pynchoniac
>
>
>