Two Encyclopedias, Fat and Thin

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

I'm reminded of Paul McCartney's comments on the 
"White Album"---it might be a big sprawling mess, 
but it's the White Album, dammit. And as expansive 
as AtD might be, the plot-lines do gather up, the 
stories' collusions do form a recognizable shape 
and like every other book TRP has cooked up, 
it's meant to be read more than once. AtD's not 
"Night at the Apollo", it's more like "Ring of the Niebulungen",
(though Parsifal's closer to the mark---everyone in 
"Against the Day" seems to be on a mythic 
quest of some sort). If that's not your cup of tea, 
read something else. If you don't have the attention span
for this sort of thing, there's a mountain of other---shorter---
books in the Library of Babel.

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From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
This one really does gall.