TMoP

[Richard Ryan]

Actually TMoP (what I've read so far) works perfectly well as independent novel.  I'd certainly be interested in reading TP but at the requested rate of roughly 25 pages a week it would take us about 40 weeks to get through TMoP and TP.  Not PDQ in other words, and in the mean time we'd be SOoL in terms of TRP.

RR 



--- On Thu, 8/28/08, Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:

> From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
> Subject: Re: TMoP
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 12:27 PM
> 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.
> 
> 
> Heikki
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Tim Strzechowski wrote:
> 
> > I'm hoping to follow along with the MoP discussion
> as well, but are we also
> > considering reading Dostoyevsky?  I  don't object,
> but I thought we were
> > just reading MoP.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > So I'm not able to say whether reading TMoP
> along with The
> > > Possessed is a good idea. Just want to state the
> obvious:
> > > the Dostoevsky novel (which I did read in the
> 80s) begs to be
> > > compared to OBA's fictions too, especially
> VL, AtD and GR.
> > >
> > >
> > > Heikki
> > >
> >