Interregnum

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Dear Guy,
Yup, we are in the midst of a close reading of Against the Day. I'll be finishing up on this collection of sandtraps in August, explaining as best I can that Lord Overlunch is [also?] the LORD, over lunch.

I suggested that the next book is Mason & Dixon as there is lots of buried history nearly exposed in that doorstopper, and that there's plenty in the book that relates to GR and AtD. Kinda agree with OBA that V. is both juvenile and deliquent. But hey, plenty of storylines in the same time zone as AtD, so our boy is clearly returning to the scene of the crime.
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From: "Guy Ian Scott Pursey" <g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk>
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> Forgive my ignorance of how this list works but are you guys discussing
> doing a close reading? I've been receiving e-mails from the list for
> quite some time and responding to only a few now and again... But I have
> noticed all these e-mails about AtD going back and forth - which I've
> been half-avoiding because it's the only Pynchon book I haven't read
> yet.
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> As I understand it, someone hosts a section of a book and then others
> pile in with interpretations...?
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> I would be really interested in taking part, esp. if it's M&D. Though
> someone might have to take a few minutes to explain how this all happens
> and how much time it takes up... Feel free to contact off-list :-)
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> Thanks,
> 
> Guy
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> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of Mark Kohut
> Sent: 09 June 2008 01:34
> To: robinlandseadel at comcast.net; P-list
> Subject: RE: Interregnum
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> whatever next one we read, and the circle is everywhere, let's make it
> even more like jazz
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> than we ALREADY do....(all the wonderful solos).......and have a steady
> bassline intertwining Whatever with AtD.....??
> 
> robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
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> 	From: "Henry":
> 	I love the big books, but let's bring it all back down to 
> 	earth and (re)read V. It's an even more difficult read 
> 	for me and, I feel, fundamental in its own feverish way. 
> 	I like its ending more than any other book by OBA.
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> 	Good points all, too bad that "V" is my least favorite. Can't
> call it 
> 	one of the "Small" books, 'cause it ain't, but it's got our
> boy's 
> 	least considered stuff, leastaways considering how nuanced his 
> 	portrayals of 'deviant' charecters become in AtD.
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> 	But you make an excellent point, and "V" sure does tie into AtD,
> don't it?
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