ATDTDA fizzling out?

[Bryan Snyder]

it takes me soooo long to read Pynchon... i look up EVERYTHING I don't 
understand and I don't move forward until I feel like I understand it...

sooo imagine my dismay when one of the characters riffs on some serious 
pre-WWI stuff and I, because of GR, know quite a bit about WWII, but nothing 
about WWI... its been days of diversionary reading and I'm itching to get 
back in...

If I can't talk confidently about one of the subjects he is referencing I 
won't continue... and there are few exceptions... like for the high-level 
math shit... in which case anytime I meet a mathy person I annoy the 
beejesus out of them w/ questions that probably don't make much sense.

and I too try to read every Pynchon-l email until I see a spoiler and then I 
wash my eyes out.

B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Mahnke" <robert_mahnke at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: ATDTDA fizzling out?


>
> Like Dave (I think), I'm only up to page 500 of the book.  I'm moving very 
> slowly by my standards, partly because I'm also reading all of these 
> e-mail, and partly because the book is too big for my commute.  So I'm 
> enjoying reading what all of y'all are saying, but it's difficult for me 
> to contribute meaningfully until I finish the thing and work my way back 
> around to you.  This will happen any day now, I'm sure.  I would be sad if 
> y'all stopped.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> Sent: Mar 30, 2007 10:22 AM
> To: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: ATDTDA fizzling out?
>
> I mostly just enjoying considering what you folks say so eloquently.   The 
> group read has probably slowed from those first heady days,  but another 
> thing is that this is the second week of the same pages.  Just my o, but I 
> think that unless something unusual happens, the discussion will always be 
> a tad slow in the second week.
>