ATDDTA (6) 166-170 b

[David Morris]

On 4/5/07, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> 168:14  "Fleetwood wanted to be like them...He prayed to become one of them. [...] Nothing 'took.'"
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>  William Gibson's 1981 short story "Hinterlands" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterlands_%28short_story%29>
> there is a similar case of people willing unsuccessfully to be "taken" by the unknown (albeit without Pynchon's explanation as to why this doesn't happen)
> <http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_149-170#Page_168>

Hi Bekah,

Just a little quibble with this above from the AtD wiki.  When Pynchon
says "nothing took" in regards to Fleetwood's desires/ambitions, I
don't think he means nothing took Fleetwood, as in carried him off
into the jungle.  Literally it means Fleetwood didn't take to (fit in,
become fluent) the adventurer's lifestyle.  He wanted something that
he wasn't fit to be.

By the way, I'm enjoying your style of hosting.  It encourages people
(at least me) to respond and converse.

David Morris