Well, I'm done... (Vineland)

[Bryan Snyder]

Indeed... now I'm reading Hollander's JFK, Magic Eye and Crying of Lot49
paper which is making me really appreciate that book too... 

Vineland I KINDA got while I was reading it... being knowledgeable about the
JFK period of US History and on (well, knowledgeable for a person not living
then, I guess) helped me with Vineland.  I missed SO MANY references in
COL49, and Hollander's paper on it is a blinding brightness into exactly how
much history Ruggles has absorbed... which in turn makes me feel a lot
better about missing stuff... LIKE I (a 1979 birth) WOULD EVER KNOW ABOUT
THE TOWNS OF INVERNESS AND METZ... OI VEY MR. PYNCHON!!



-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Eckhardt [mailto:thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de] 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 3:05 PM
To: wilsonistrey at gmail.com
Cc: 'Otto'; 'Daniel Harper'; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Well, I'm done... (Vineland)

Thoreen's paper is brilliant and, with regard to the current situation, 
frightening.

Thomas


Bryan Snyder schrieb:

>Vineland exceeded every expectation I had for it... I loved that book.
>
>There is an amazing paper about it available at the University of Texas
>Tarlton Law Library by a guy named David Thoreen.  It's called "The
>President's Emergency War Powers and the Erosion of Civil Liberties in
>Pynchon's Vineland".
>
>It's just as riveting as the book and for those that don't know about the
>paper or anything... Brock Vond... based on a real guy!!  
>
>I am in my post-Vineland phase which means I'm reading everything about
that
>book I can get my hands on... if anyone has anything interesting...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf
>Of Otto
>Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 9:49 AM
>To: Daniel Harper
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Well, I'm done...
>
>I would definitely do so!
>
>And "Vineland" is much better as widely asserted...
>
>Otto
>
>2007/7/16, Daniel Harper <daniel.e.harper at gmail.com>:
>  
>
>>Hm... Maybe I'll go back to Vineland again before re-tackling ATD.
>>
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