5 Daunting Doorstoppers You've Just Gotta Have!

[Mark Kohut]

Am I just making this up, or did someone say TRP had Anatomy of Melancholy
behind his feeling of loss for the modern world?


--- On Sat, 11/15/08, braam van bruggen <braam.vanbruggen at bigpond.com> wrote:

> From: braam van bruggen <braam.vanbruggen at bigpond.com>
> Subject: Re: 5 Daunting Doorstoppers You've Just Gotta Have!
> To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Cc: "pynchon-l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008, 9:36 PM
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >
> >