Do: Re: Mi: Question for those (Us) seriously obsessed...

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

"For those concerned about such things, though, do
remember, there is such a thing as fair use ..."

Interesting, considering the following:

"Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved 
above, no part of this publication may be reproduced. . . ."

Which then goes on to state that any use will be 
regarded as copyright violation. No mention is made
of "short excerpts used in a review"---all uses are verboten
other than those with the "prior written written permission
of both copyright owner [happens to be Thomas Pynchon]
and the above publisher [Penguin] of this [Against the Day]
book".

So we oughta be seeing them cease and desist orders any 
day now, hopefully in the author's own [kinda shaky] hand.

Collect all 5,078,431!!!

"Yes, a small library's worth of books of Pynchon
criticism is available, but there's no need to rip
off somebody's intellectual property, especially not
some struggling Pynchon scholar's...."

Serves all of them Brie scarfing Collegiate Elect
right to suffer for all that turgid, generally unreadable 
piffle. 

"Yeah, well," as film critic Mitchell Prettyplace puts it in 
his definitive 18-volume study of King Kong. "you know, 
he did love her, folks." Proceeding from this thesis, it 
appears that Prettyplace has lefy nothing out, every 
shot including out-takes raked through for every last 
bit of symbolism, exhaustive biographies of everyone 
connected with the film, extras, grips, lab people . . . 
even interviews with King Kong Kultists, who to be 
eligible for membership must have seen the movie at 
least 100 times and be prepared to pass an 8-hour 
entrance exam. . . .

As I recall,  "University Press Books" in Berkeley 
used to have these front of store displays of Pynchonalia,
facing out a 4-foot tall, 3-foot wide book shelve with 
nothing but. Most appeared to be written in some varient 
form of Kligon, with footnotes in esperanto.

Really looking forward to Strong's Kabbalistic 
Koncordance to "Gravity's Rainbow", with "Golden
Dawn" atributions is a shiny faux gold leaf that proves 
particularly difficult to scrye for all but true adepts. [:-}