Fwd: (Almost) NP

[Natália Maranca]

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From: Natália Maranca <nmaranca at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: (Almost) NP
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>


No, the big novels. So that when they dislike it, they are at least
disliking something more authentically Pynchonian.


On 5/7/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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