Preparation for "the Day"...

[Mark Kohut]

It might be that difficult to "assess" but NOT to read, I say. 

Those are ballon boys! 
There is an exploited miner's family and descendants.
There is a P.I. 

There is the whole world in it.

Enjoyment first,

Mark


--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Guy Ian Scott Pursey <g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: Guy Ian Scott Pursey <g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk>
> Subject: RE: Preparation for "the Day"...
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 8:34 AM
> 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