General TP Reading Question (extremely silly)

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

> My question is: Do I read V. or 
> Mason & Dixon next?
> 

<silliness>

everybody probably knows what I'll say, but I feel so frisky today!
Re-read Vineland.  Learn it.  Live it.  Every great truth known to
the soul comes alive in its pages.

But of the two, if your muse guides you to Mason & Dixon, I'd
listen to the Muse.  

Given enough leisure, you could like read Henry Adams, 
and a buncha Kerouac, listen to some early Dylan, 
and then read V. in a luncheonette
in Norfolk ('cause you'd probably get beat up for reading it
in a sailor's bar)

then read John Barth's oeuvre in order, 
then Freud in German; Lacan, Deleuze & Guattari, in French;
Borges in Spanish; Agamben and Dante in Italian...
(Ya Sam and maybe some other awesome readers here have
probably actually done this...)

and then read all the group reads 
from the archives.  Then read all of Marxists.org.

a-and Pynchon Notes - many available free here
http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/backissu.html
though you might get hooked and want to pay for the
newer ones too, to support the cause

Write papers on all the above.  
Listen to some Joan Baez, and maybe some Canned Heat.  Country Joe
& the Fish too.  
Then follow up with Vineland, and know its beauty anew.

Read Norbert Wiener (heh heh) and Zipf, study Tarot and astrology,
and at that point, seriously tackle GR.  

Some say even Gaddis becomes accessible after a certain amt of study, too...

</silliness>

but honestly, they're both great - you can't go wrong.