MICHIKO KAKUTANI

[Mark Kohut]

NOTHING in AtD can be cut....without felt loss....lots of it............

The work is still a loose, baggy monster ala James famous way of characterizing many supposedly'formless' works of genius...

--- On Tue, 8/4/09, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:

> From: Page <page at quesnelbc.com>
> Subject: Re: MICHIKO KAKUTANI
> To: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>, "Nushra MohamedKhan" <nushramkhan at gmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 4:31 PM
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> Which 300 pages? If you are going to toss out the idea
> of reducing the 
> book by 30%, you'd best have an idea of what you want
> to excise.
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> The post is not meant to be a nasty-gram; I am
> interested in how one might 
> approach hacking out so much of the book.
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>   ----- Original Message
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>   From: 
>   David Morris 
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>   To: Nushra
> MohamedKhan 
>   Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
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>   Sent: Tuesday,
> August 04, 2009 1:22 
>   PM
>   Subject: Re: MICHIKO
> KAKUTANI
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> I so agree with this.  Pynchon needs a strong
> editor (BTW 
>   so could your posts, Nushra), and AGTD (I also like
> this 
>   phonetic "acronym") is the prime example
> of this need.
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>   On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:22 PM,
> Nushra MohamedKhan 
>   <nushramkhan at gmail.com>
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>   wrote:
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>    AGTD is great, but man could it
> be improved if he 
>     took out some 300-odd pages and squared it up took out
> a couple few stupid 
>     plot lines and a  couplefew dozen chanracters
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