More on IV

[Carvill John]

How much there is there, there?

Well, good to hear from Monte Davis. Shame it's a bit of a negative note. Each to his own, of course. BUt (a) I reckon there is still a good bit more to be revealed about IV, and more importantly (b) I find what already seems to be there to be quite enough there for the kind of book this aims to be. Nothing from any other current fiction author, no matter how big a hitter he may be, could compare to a fresh new Pynchon novel.

As for whether there is any beach under IV's pavement, I refer the honourable gentleman to the thread I responded to some moments ago...


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> From: torerye at hotmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: More on IV
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:10:36 +0200
>
>
> 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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