An Early work by Thomas Pynchon

[Richard Ryan]

You mean with ornate language and no characterization?
Um....

--- David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Zowee! How many Chemistry textbooks start with
> something like this?!?:
>  
> "The name Chemistry, is said to be derived from the
> Arabic word Kimia, something hidden or concealed,
> and from this, to have been converted into Xyueia*,
> a word first used by the Greeks about the eleventh
> century, and meaning the art of making gold and
> silver. Between the fifth century and the taking of
> Constantinople in the fifteenth century, says Dr.
> Thomson, in his History of Chemistry, the Greeks
> believed in the possibility of making god and silver
> artificially; and the art which professed to teach
> the processes was called by them, Chemistry. This
> idea, however, has long since been thoroughly
> discarded, and is now no longer heard of."*My note
> (er, "my" as in "me"--that is, Dave): This word was
> written in Greek, so I couldn't quite type it out
> correctly.
> 
> 
> 
> > From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net> To:
> pynchon-l at waste.org> Subject: An Early work by
> Thomas Pynchon> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:39:59
> +0000> > Introduction to Chemical Physics> Designed
> for the use of > Academies, High Schools and
> Colleges>
> ------------------------------------------------->
> By Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, M. A.,> >
> http://tinyurl.com/28l62z> > The link goes to the
> whole book, I haven'y even looked inside yet.. But
> I've got > plenty of reason to believe I'm gonna
> find something in here. . . .
>
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