Back to our regularly scheduled novelist.

[Ian Livingston]

This seems to resonate with the interlinking of characters, themes and ideas
we find in the novels, yes?  Like one gargantuan, brilliant symphony....

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Laura,
>
> No, I think Inherent Vice was 'surely'---[don't call me shirley]--started
> in the 60s (conceptually) and 70s (physically).
>
> I think that about AtD, as I've repeated.
>
> We have TRPs words about his lifelong writing projects from that letter to
> his agent back in the day.
>
> Hearing that TRP was 'correcting' proof copies of AtD up until he had to
> let it go, I think that he is the kind of perfectionist and cumulatively
> maturer writer who has been 'writing', refining, 'correcting' "Inherent
> Vice" since then, probably.
>
> Mark
>
>
> --- On Sun, 11/30/08, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > From: kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
> > Subject: Re: Back to our regularly scheduled novelist.
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 1:52 AM
> > I'd be inclined to read VL first, since it's sort of
> > a sequel to ATD (Traverse family-wise), followed by COL49,
> > which seems closer to what IV promises to be about (am I the
> > only one who thinks IV was written back in the  late
> > 60s-early 70s, its title being a self-referential joke about
> >
> > poor-quality items prone to decay?).
> >
> > Laura
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Robin Landseadel
> > <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> > >Sent: Nov 30, 2008 1:32 AM
> > >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > >Subject: Re: Back to our regularly scheduled novelist.
> > >
> > >Uh, er, yeah [?]
> > >
> > >Does this mean you'd rather do "V." next?
> > >
> > >And can we have a show of hands?
> > >
> > >On Nov 29, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> > >
> > >> if we did those 2 before,
> > >> and then did IV
> > >> it would only be natural to progress from IV to V
> > wouldn't it?
> > >>
> > >> just sayin'
> > >
>
>
>
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