VL-IV: Homestretch

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Sounds like you're going through some Pynchon-esque nasal/dental agony.  Ouch!  Hope you feel better soon, Mike.  I've been similarly diverted by some half-assed atheistic acknowledgements of Passover, fractious relatives of various generations making demands on my time, etc.  I'm trying to catch up in the home stretch, so I certainly wouldn't mind if Robin took a few extra days.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 15, 2009 9:19 AM
>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: VL-IV: Homestretch
>
>yer doin great, thanks very much
>
>I for one hope we do go on to San Narciso...
>
>I'm still recovering from the dental weirdness that laid low my
>self-censoring for awhile, resulting in some more than usually oddball
>posts that actually may have offended Carvill, which I normally
>wouldn't do...
>some weird gum infection and sinus infection that is getting better
>now but too slowly
>
>so I don't have much to say but am following with great interest and
>appreciate the wrap up
>I think you are shedding some light onto Vineland and bringing it into
>perspective...my inclination is to read it like a great classic like
>the Odyssey or Dante where the history is so remote  (like, who cares,
>Trojans Greeks Guelphs Ghibelllines & so forth...) that you are just
>nodding along with the insights into human nature...but as you are
>elucidating, there are lots of references to the events that are with
>time gradually verging from being current events into becoming
>history...and appreciable as such
>
>
>On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Robin Landseadel
><robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I've got 40 more pages to go, either I can rush through to Sunday [about
>> seven, eight pages a day], or lap over into next week, you folks out there
>> can choose. I guess I'm going slow, hoping to display how much of what seems
>> absurd or laughable in "Vineland" either really happened or was planned on
>> being used in the ongoing  "drug war."
>>
>> I'd like to know if we have plans [or non-plans] for CoL49.
>>
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>-- 
> - "yep, he'd murmur, still making stupid mistakes and how about
>yerself?" - Zoyd, p 24