Master of Petersburg - Group Read - Revised Schedule

[Mark Kohut]

Right now Mr. Paul Nightingale is my hero because, between respites, he STICKS TO WRITING ABOUT PYNCHON. Kudos, kudos. 

Call me old-fashioned, but I think the pynchon-l list should always be talking about one of Pynchon's works. Like the Janeites are always rereading Austen. 

I am looking forward nicely to the Master of Petersburg discussion....
BUT, I am not getting any younger---maybe unlike some p-listers?---and I want to be talking about another TRP work too.

I think of getting back to the start with the stories or V. BUT I would be ecstatic to have to reread and discuss "Vineland" with Robin and all. I did not read it with a smart, interested, diverse community of readers ever.

Mark 




--- On Mon, 9/8/08, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Master of Petersburg - Group Read - Revised Schedule
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 1:19 PM
> Mark Kohut:
>           I do plan to be alive and not much more 
>           mentally deteriorated by my hosting time.
> 
> I plan to lurk anonymously, then post a series of
> increasingly 
> pointless non-sequiturs and incomprehensible red herrings,
> deploying
> disgusting nom-de-webs, all the time showing utter
> disrespect for 
> both J. M. Coetzee and the collective p-list.
> 
> Actually, I'm probably going to read the damn thing,
> but mostly 
> butt-out as the author is new to me and what I've read
> so far 
> has not made any meaningful connection with my reading
> urges so far.
> On the other hand, I just might start looking for cheap
> used copies of 
> Dostoevsky, my best friend in High School was crazy for his
> stuff. 
> 
> Right now I feel a strong need to re-read Vineland. A lot
> of what 
> Pynchon is saying in Vineland is that Television's
> influence on all 
> of us is far more insidious that any of us would ever want
> to admit. 
> A good example is how people constantly refer to Sarah
> Palin's 
> "performance" at the RNC. She is plausible to so
> many people 
> because she is so throughly a classic figure from a popular
> Television 
> series. It's as if she's Maurice Minnifield's
> nastier, tougher 
> [hypothetical] daughter.
> 
> If you want to discuss the second half of the post, feel
> free to 
> continue at "Re: George Lakoff vs. Sarah Palin",
> no reason to
> throw off real bizness off on account of my ego trips.