reading matters

[Mark Kohut]

Just gonna start an argument I like to get into.

TRP is a jujitsu 'scientist"....he knows it to defeat it.


--- On Tue, 8/5/08, Graham Croft <grahamcroft at mac.com> wrote:

> From: Graham Croft <grahamcroft at mac.com>
> Subject: reading matters
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 4:42 PM
> http://januarymagazine.com/fiction/quicksilver.html
> 
> This is link to a 2003 review of the first book of a
> trilogy that came  
> out some time ago set i the early days of the formation of
> the Royal  
> Society and written by Neal Stevenson.
> 
> Like Pynchon this guy comes from a science rather than a
> lit  
> background and his portrait of Newton is a delight - though
> his  
> optical experiments require a strong stomach. The books
> suggest an  
> obsessive delight in research (though as I don't share
> this myself I'm  
> guessing as to the accuracy of the historic architecture;
> what ~I do  
> know of the period meshes) and a real feel for the minutiae
> of  
> circumstance - one of the many things that make
> Gravity's Rainbow such  
> a prodigiously believable excursion into a landscape of
> mania.
> 
> Newton's fascination with and respect for the occult
> sciences gets a  
> proper hearing here, and the portrayal of the academic and 
> 
> governmental politics of the time should satisfy the most
> demanding  
> paranoia.
> 
> And if you like the first one - there are two more.