Preparation for "the Day"...

[Robin Landseadel]

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On Nov 18, 2008, at 5:34 AM, Guy Ian Scott Pursey wrote:

>
> Thanks all for your help,
>
> I especially liked this line from the second review Dave Monroe sent  
> me:
>
> "And now we have Against the Day, a book as difficult to assess by the
> criteria of contemporary fiction as it would be to judge Cerberus with
> the rest of the Crufts usuals."
>
> SF Reviews very useful, as you said.
>
> So I've noted to look up Chicago World Fair of 1893 and briefly remind
> myself of what WWI was all about - both officially and otherwise(?),  
> as
> I expect Pynchon will be drawing on both...
>
> Also:
> Dos Passos' The USA Trilogy (cheers, Laura)
> Alchemy
> Eastern Philosophy
> The Roots of Buddhism
> Enlightenment (in the many senses of the word)
> Theosophy (thanks to Robin for these)
>
> Did I miss anything? At a glance, not sure I will have time to read  
> all
> the p-list correspondence on it, Michael... Plus I guess they will
> contain spoilers.
>
> I may just dive in (bearing all the above in mind of course) and  
> then if
> I come unstuck come crawling back to this list...
>
> If there are any more suggestions as to how to approach this, keep 'em
> coming :-)
>
> Guy
>