IVIV Sportello

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Re: Point No. 7 -- I didn't notice it that much when I was reading IV, but I 
bought the audio version and, listening to it, the story feels very episodic 
and fragmentary.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com>
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 5:17 AM
Subject: Re: IVIV Sportello


> Nice work folks!
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> SPOILERS:
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> Notes:
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> 1. Doc's LSD experience literalises his name
> 2. Think of the reason Bigfoot got *his* name
> 3. I'd totally forgotten how prominent doors and portals and liminal
> passing-over points are in AtD
> 4. A door isn't just an entryway, it's a barrier. An artificially
> imposed line. M&D suggests that the drawing of boundary lines is a
> kind of modern Original Sin. Lines have power. Single 'em up, and...
> 5. That bit in a recently mentioned Pynchon letter re: the Herero
> genocide and the imposition of an imperial culture being tied to
> differentiation and categorisation...
> 6. "Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman really is an awesome
> song. Thanks to IV for the introduction.
> 7. IV's been by my desk for a good month now and I've slowly
> discovered that dipping into it at random is a different experience to
> reading it 1-369. It's much more fragmentary than a straight read
> suggests, and the mindset I get into reading it as an attempt at a
> 'properly plotted' novel means that I completely miss some of the
> richness of individual sections. I can highly recommend flicking
> through and having a cruisy read of whatever you hit upon. Don't read
> it in terms of the overall shape of the novel.
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>
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> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Michel Ryckx<mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>> Doc Sportello = Colored Plots
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>> John Bailey:
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>>> Sportello anagram: Tropes? LOL!
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>>> [Punctuation = author's own]
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>>> 2009/8/21 János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>:
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>>>>
>>>> Kute Korrespondences:
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>>>> Sportello = window/door.
>>>> Maas = loophole.
>>>> Sportello anagram: L. E. Slotrop.
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