AtDTDA : 12 "My Native land is not a country" 326

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Robin:

>I've got multi-colored post-it tabs throughout my now thoroughly trashed 
>copy of the book--->pages 159-340 fell out en masse during this third 
>excursion---

I only lost 136 pages (503-638), so I guess I should count myself lucky! 
Two-and-a-half (or, perhaps more fittingly, a couple-three) readings seem to 
be what this spineless monster was constructed to sustain. Pynchon may have 
written a durable text to be reread many times, but Penguin Press has housed 
it in a decidely undurable edifice - as if they didn't actually believe 
anyone would bother to read this novel more than once. Ah well, I guess 
we'll have to wait for the Library of America edition of Pynchon's collected 
works; with a bit of luck, it should be here in 50 years or so.

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