Zoyd

[Mark Kohut]

LOL....right on. 

 

--- On Thu, 8/20/09, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Zoyd
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 6:09 AM
> > Once again into the breach.
> However ragged AtD might be internally, the whole Chums
> build-up to the beautiful, graceful end is fully coherent
> imho.
> 
> Now, look here, chum: there' s no breach to once more into.
> Or, if
> there is, I'm on your side of it anyway. I think a number
> of critcis
> made total asses of themselves by not getting 'Against the
> Day'. The
> book began beautifully, then unravelled. Towards the end,
> there were
> some great segments, and as you say, it all comes sorta
> 'full fuckin'
> circle' (although what it all 'means' is, as ever, vague).
> Fine by me.
> But the middle sections were uneven. Still worth reading,
> every page,
> but sometimes frustrating.
> 
> Come now, tell me which parts of what I just said could not
> be applied to GR?
> 
> But ATD was, even by Pynchon;s standards, baggy and loose.
> Some of us
> think tehre may wel lbe hidden structures, but that is
> another
> story...
>