More on IV

Tore Rye Andersen torerye at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 12 03:10:36 CDT 2009


Forwarded message from Monte Davis:
 

> Tore, I haven't been able to post to the P-list since August 6. 
> I see (what appear to be) all the posts. I've resubscribed, then 
> *un*subscribed and resubscribed. I'm having no trouble with any other 
> use of email or the Internet.
>
> Queried, O. Xymoron replies: "We're switching ISPs here, which has 
> been causing some, ah.. interesting times."
>
> Would you be kind enough to post this Nth attempt -- including the 
> meta -- for me? Might as well use the header "More on IV."
>
> On 8/6 Rich Romeo wrote:
>
>> I don't believe you can look at IV on any level beyond satire--there's
>> not enough joint compound to go around... This is the first time
>> reading a new Pynchon work where I wasn't surprised or shown something
>> unique...
>
> I'll subscribe to that. I'm six weeks past my first reading, contemplating a 
> second but no more urgently than I look at others in the fresh-from-Amazon 
> stack. There didn't seem to be a lot of there there* behind or beneath the 
> surfaces
>
> *G. Stein's Oakland, for the map -- I expect IV will be mapped obsessively 
> to see if Doc's travels trace out the Tibetan seal from AtD., or maybe a 
> Graeco-Riemannian zeta.
>
> -Monte
>
> PS Aug. 9: Au revoir, Rich, and hasta la vista.
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