It's about time. . . .

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 13:22:20 CDT 2007


On 11/1/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>     David Morris:
>     Watching "Zeitgeist" reminded me of that Playboy Japan interview  purported to be a Pynchon quote.  "Most of The News Is Propaganda" and "There Might Be No Bin Laden Ever Existed."  So I went over to Otto's  site and re-read it.  God, it is such a rambling mess.  Whoever wrote  that sounds like they have Attention Deficit Disorder (on drugs,  maybe?):
>
>     http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/playboy.htm
>
> And then there's translation from the original Japanese to take into consideration, as well.

Yeah, I guess that should be taken into consideration.  Also, the real
original would have been in English, right?

> How much of Against the Day have you read so far?

I finished it a couple of months ago.  As I've at least hinted at here
before, I was greatly disappointed with it.  Not ALL of it.  Some
parts were better than others.  But as a whole it was a let down, at
least for me.

David Morris



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