Preparation for

[kelber at mindspring.com]

It's probably best to just plunge in, google-searching as needed.  The USA trilogy by Dos Passos would be great thing to read before or after, if you haven't read it yet.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Guy Ian Scott Pursey <g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk>
>Sent: Nov 10, 2008 9:28 AM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Preparation for "the Day"...
>
>Hello all,
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>I've put it off long enough - so I'm thinking of beginning Against The
>Day this December and seeing if I can finish it in a month (highly
>unlikely but the Christmas vacation may give me a fighting chance).
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>Could any of you advise me of what I might do to ready myself for this
>daunting task? I was thinking something along the lines of this primer
>for Gravity's Rainbow...
>http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_grintro.html
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>If each of you could just name one thing that I might quickly read up on
>before December so the experience won't make me feel like a complete
>idiot, I'd greatly appreciate it. No spoilers though please :-)
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>Or if you think I should begin without any prior and deliberate
>preparation, let it be known and I'll consider diving in and seeing what
>happens.
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>Thanks,
>
>Guy
>