TMboP

[kevin cummiskey]

Aren't these dispatches, included here, below and elsewhere, really coming by way of every small-town library in america? Or am I mistaken?  How could it not be otherwise?  You all sound just like all the old, (fart) constipated female librarians behind every reference desk, in america.  And to think we havn't even yet started reading the book(?), or commenting on the actual reading(s). Quel distressing.






--- On Thu, 8/28/08, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: TMoP
> To: "Heikki Raudaskoski" <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 1:06 PM
> I would propose MoP alone, letting those with Possessed
> already under
> their belts to comment about it in the MoP discussions as
> they wish.
> Those (like me) who haven't read Possessed might then
> be inspired to
> read it later on their own.
> 
> David Morris
> 
> > Heikki:
> >
> > Yep, such an idea has been proposed (not by me
> though). But it'd be a long project as The Possessed is
> almost as long as AtD.
> >
> > But from what I hear, The Possessed is such a vital
> intertext to TMoP that it will loom large in any reading of
> Coetzee's novel, regardless of how explicitly it is
> included in the group read.