P's Everythingist book

[Mark Kohut]

I can't locate the original post that started the so-justified praise of
GR...or whoever it was who said it was his most everthingist 
book..........

I am second to few in loving GR, the book which is so f'in' unforgettable
that it MUST be his BEST in so many ways.....

BUT, I will still repeat that, even if AtD does not cohere (as many plisters think; even if it has longeurs; could have been cut [not]; is seldom so intensely, lyrically written as GR; is a loose baggy monster)...

IT is the Pynchon novel which HAS everything....tries to have everything...his whole lifetime of working out his vision---of modernity; of science; of death and religion;of History---what modern writer has put down such a modern geopolitical historical tale?...he CHOSE and has a vision of every cauldron that has MADE the world we live in......

We haven't lived with Against the Day nearly as long as we have with GR... we haven't reread it nearly as much......it isn't the book that most of we plisters first experienced Pynchon's mind-blowingness with......therefore    

Just repeatin'....