Monk's motto or: Is Against the Day in favour of the Night?

[David Morris]

Oops!  I hit "send" too soon.  I meant to say:

Of your comments below, I have a very similar feeling.  I expect there
are deep veins of potent thought in AtD, but  for me the book lacks
the energy we expect.  You shouldn't stop reading it, of course.  It's
never dead weight.  But for me it rarely thrilled.  But I really do
expect that Pynchon has lots of underlying depth in there that I've
not tapped.  Once in a great while this group read scratches at hints
of such depth, but not often.  Though some here claim it's a
masterpiece, they never back up their words with
explanation/demonstration.

> > Your mails help me to always again take the book into my hands. Checking out the favourite passages you people name (I don't believe in 'spoilers') helps me to get a feeling for what I might be liking about "Against the Day" some day. If Heaven allows. Up to now --- Don't stone me! --- there isn't much. I don't like the ethnic  jokes, I don't like the view on women, I don't like the M&Dish humour. I haven't learned, up to now, new things about Anarchist theory, the Tarot, the functional differentiation of science, or Shambhala (issues about I, perhaps, know one or two things). So I would be grateful for any hint that keeps me hanging on.
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