re doorstoppers

[Henry]

If I was ambitious...

Henry Mu

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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Mark Kohut
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:16 PM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org; Robin Landseadel
Subject: Re: re doorstoppers

Also ambition.

Author's.

Ours.


--- On Mon, 11/17/08, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel 
> Subject: Re: re doorstoppers
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 6:53 PM
> Partially, it's the "Lisa Simpson Syndrome,"
> the need to prove
> to ourselves that we're smarter than everyone else. I
> think
> getting lost in the library is another part of the
> "Doorstopper"
> infatuation, finding labyrinths of words/worlds to get lost
> in.
> Borges writes about that, as does Calvino.
> 
> > Why are we attracted to doorstoppers?  I, for one,
> live in them  
> > while I read
> > them for months on end, and then I need to find a
> short book or a  
> > book of
> > short stories to bring me back.
> >
> > Henry Mu