5 Daunting Doorstoppers You've Just Gotta Have!

Sat Nov 15 20:36:32 CST 2008

It's gorgeous, so rich it's like Christmas cake. The frontispiece with the 
wild-eyed staring melancholic and his wife weeping in the background. When 
Heraclitus saw the folly of this world, he wept. When Democritus saw it, he 
laughed. Then him without trousers cutting up chickens to find the seat of 
melancholy. It would take years to finish.

Braam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: 5 Daunting Doorstoppers You've Just Gotta Have!

>A favorite doorstopper I'll probably never finish, but still dip into
> frequently: The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton.
> A remarkably funny book.
>
> On Nov 14, 2008, at 9:37 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> double ewww
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>> but for some good fat books how about:
>>
>> the Illuminatus Trilogy, Shea and Wilson
>> The Arms of Krupp (not fiction, but still interesting, I seem to  recall)
>> Dark Night of the Soul - St John of the Cross
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> 