ATDTDA fizzling out?

[Bryan Snyder]

Good enough for me...

I'm sure as soon as a lot of people start their 2nd and 3rd reads... the 
math will start getting examined a bit more closely.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Harper" <daniel_harper at earthlink.net>
To: "Bryan Snyder" <wilsonistrey at gmail.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: ATDTDA fizzling out?


> On Friday 30 March 2007 11:57, you wrote:
>> <the crowd screams for math help>
>>
>>
>
> I get _most_ of the math in ATD, at least in theory, from my readings in 
> the
> history of science/math. I'm still a bit confused as to the theoretical as
> opposed to operation differences between Vectors and Quarternions, and 
> don't
> ask me to solve a differential equation anytime soon, but I can 
> more-or-less
> follow along.
>
> My only real problem with the ATD group read is that I'm working my way
> through at least superficial readings of Pynchon's other works. And I am
> forcing myself to more-or-less set ATD aside until it gestates for a bit.
>
> In other news, I'm working on a post about Pynchon's use of science in 
> M&D's
> first section, which I hope to have up Monday or Tuesday of next week. And
> I'd love to do a similar post on ATD, but I'm afraid it's going to have to
> wait until I've read the book a time or two again. The science stuff is 
> the
> stuff that I like the most about ATD, so it holds a special place for me.
>
> -- 
> No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
> --Daniel Harper
> countermonkey.blogspot.com