Work is central to literature

[Dave Monroe]

--- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Here it was:
> 
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http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0704&msg=117654

Okay, sorry, I USUALLY hear it when my name is called
here, but ... well, having carried my FIRST copy
around 'til the back cover was hanging almost
literally by a thread, having been given a second copy
whichi'm going to preserve for posterity, I'm now
hauling around library copies, but still stalled ca
2/3rds of the way through.  I've been knocking off
classic SF novels (Alas Babylon, The Space Merchants,
A Case of Conscience) and bound comic book collections
(NOT "graphic novels," per se, those DC Archive Eds.,
Marvel Essentials, et al.) te get back into simply
being able to stay awake long enough (waiting for/on
the bus, sitting at coffeshops, et al.) to read at all
...

That being said, I by and large flew through what I
have read, when I've read it, slwoing down only when
it seemed I might have a particular something to say,
but i have been going back and rereading pasasges
under discussion here, so ...

So the discussion itself is, for the first time it's
been able to here (I joined after the first M&D read,
midway through a subsequent one of GR), itself shaping
my reception of the book, and for the better.  I still
favor GR and Lot 49, and think M&D might still win out
over AtD in my personal ranking, but with the new
novel being, I don't know, chronotopically (?) closer
to home, and i think clearly in dialogue with the
other novels, i's setting off Connections, causing
neuron to fire, constantly, so ...

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