(Almost) NP

[Natália Maranca]

People shouldn't start with L49. Or, actually, people should be told not to
start with L49.

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From a blogger with a boulder on his shoulder.........
> But what I have sent this around for is the title on his rant,
>
> which could be applied, yes?, to some of Pynchon's sadomasochistic lovers?
>
> *masochismo!
> *i decided to read *the crying of lot 49* by thomas pynchon, mostly
> because i always supected that he belongs to that generation of
> self-obsessed, mid-century, american, male authors that i love to hate*, who
> are in equal parts consumed with their own brilliance and the inalienable
> rightness of said brilliance. oh, and fearing and resenting women and people
> of colour, too.
>
> anyway, of this ilk having only read tom robbins (fantastic when i was an
> idiotic seventeen year-old hippie and abhorrent later), jack kerouac (ditto,
> though less so the latter), and ernest hemingway (author of *the old man
> and the sea*, a book i threw across the room in disgust no less than three
> times), i was hoping to be proven wrong with pynchon. i am sorry to report
> that i hated it, also.
>
> i think i need to go get drunk and dance to madonna.
>
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