Thanks, Robin!

[Bryan Snyder]

Whoa... I can't believe I'm included in that list... where's Professor Irwin
when you need him.  Thanks for the nice comments... I've thought the same
thing here about most of the other people you mentioned often asking myself
"Where do these people find the time?" or "Thank god someone is looking this
stuff up" but always a new angle emerges for me and I know that a lot of the
conclusions we (and I'm really honored to use the word "we") have reached
here are so DEAD ON.

Like that Fool and the Dog and the Dogs in TRP's books the divine light of
Kabbalah, the O.T.O inside jokes, etc.; that can't be anymore dead on and I
often hope that TRP himself checks out the archives (I couldn't resist if
there was an email list about little old me, so I imagine the human TRP has
somewhat a similar urge to take a peek at what his most rabid of fans are
saying) and every so often gets to lean back with a grin that would only
follow the pride felt seeing someone connect HIS dots.

Anyway - thanks to all!
B

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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 8:48 PM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Thanks, Robin!

Thanks, I considered it a gift, and it's just 
about the weirdest gift I've ever recieved. 
Started up re-reading Gravity's Rainbow 
today---if you start reading GR right now, 
there's a smooth, eerie transition from 
Edwardian London to the aftermath, the 
remnants of Edwardian London---using a 
color coding system that utilizes little 
multicolored metallicized stick-on stars, 
just like Slothrop's, only glitzer. 

Thanks to those brave souls among you 
who made such illuminating posts, I thank you 
Paul Nightingale, Keith, Glenn Scheper, 
Bryan Snyder, David Morris, Tore Rye 
Andersen, Mark Kohut, Dave Monroe, 
Monte Davis, Ya Sam and everyone else 
who sent back messages in envelopes 
covered with sigils. I learned quite a bit in 
the process. I was jumping up and waving 
my hand in the manner of Hermione Granger 
when the temporal hole emerged. This 
particular aspect of Pynchon's work---the part 
that deals with magic/k, is the part I've drawn 
the most from, largely because of the aspect
of magic that Pynchon seems particularly focused 
on: the Summoning of Angels. Think of Pynchon's 
use, his placement of angelic intervention in his 
work, just about all of it. And yes, at the end of the 
day you're still dealing with a guy who's an author, 
if he's magical at anything, it's gonna be words. . . .
and I'm quite keen on Tarot cards, thanks to TRP.

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From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>

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