almost ?

[Cometman]

Ghod, that was nicely put



--- "grladams at teleport.com" <grladams at teleport.com> wrote:

> Yes I keep thinking that too. I began to run into the words "almost
> as if"
> with dread when reading it for long bouts of time because I thought
> it was
> repetitive. And I wished that we could all just "come out and say it"
> but
> when I would raise my eyes to think, well what would that be, well
> you see
> the horror in that! I wished there was a non repetitive way to say
> "almost"
> but don't you all, in that eye raising moment think of "against" as
> it is a
> titular word, and the beauty and complexity of that prepositional
> title
> phrase. and then that opened up to seeming to, being not unlikes, and
> other
> tricks of these crabwalking sideways and aways from the thing
> relationships. I also took these points in space to be as
> reflections. I
> began to think there had to be a reason for it. I think it is
> resistance in
> pure form, maybe. The pulling away from an inevitability that has
> been well
> loathesome. Also in my math deficited world I pretended that the math
> represents an ever present measurement of this device.
> 
> Jill
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: bekah bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:59:31 -0700
> To: markekohut at yahoo.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: "almost" ?
> 
> 
> Has anyone done a phrase count of  "almost as if,"  or just the word,
> 
> "almost"  ?    I think it occurs on 'almost' every page.    What does
> 
> this mean?   Nothing is as it seems but it all connects?
> 
> 
> Bekah
> 
> 
> 
> At 8:41 AM -0700 10/13/07, Mark Kohut wrote:
> >Foax:
> >
> >I am doing a crawling-thru the text of Pynchon's 
> >works...."annotating" the earlier ones as carefully as AtD is being 
> >annotated...as Shakespeare, Austen, Sherlock Holmes, even The Cat in
> 
> >the Hat is---[check out; fascinating].....
> >
> >I am doing it on the pynchon wiki.
> >
> 
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