(Almost) NP

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Nahhhhhhhh!
Yr. Chicken, by all means "start" with 49.
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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Stories, then "V."?.....chronological order, ya think?
> 
> Natália Maranca <nmaranca at gmail.com> wrote:  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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