Preparation for "the Day"...

[Michael Bailey]

a good run-thru is available at pynchonwiki.com

also chumps of choice (blogspot) did a less exhaustive read

and the OCD pre-read prep would be all posts in WASTE p-list archive
with ATDTDA in the header (;


On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Guy Ian Scott Pursey
<g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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 J
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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,
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> Guy



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