minor edit

[Mark Kohut]

Mike & Laura (and all)---
   
  This is to me the most wrong thing Wood says in his review:
  never 
>indulges in that rallentando of respect whereby 
>each note is awarded its imperishable thisness
   
  Each note, each word in ATD has "imperishable thisness", is its
  own note.....(this music metaphor would hurt TRP if he cared what
  Wood said, I think, because of his love of music felt note by note).
  He, as did so many reviewers felt rushed to read it, maybe, and they
  projected that rush onto TRP's book.....I think we all did see---Laura, bekah
  early, the slow Proustian quality to AtD (compared to GR and V. say)
   
  It is a curious inversion but like most reviewers finding it langorously long.
  (Joining of opposities ala Pavlov's study in GR?)
   
  Pynchon gives each note meaning--thisness (is that what Wood means?)
  but the major question is are all the notes musical, do the notes create
  ....novelisticness? I say yes, almost all do--it is.
   
  MK
   
   
   
   
   
   
  

mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:
  had this in mind but got excited and pressed send

the last 2 comments-following-excerpts should have read
"perhaps if this were illuminated by an explanation"
and then

"...instead of a list..."




 
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