IVIV (1) Intro

[grladams at teleport.com]

I'm liking the book, don't get me wrong, but also circling all the dang
hobby horses Pynchon's using...  if I hadn't read so much Pynchon, I might
actually like this one better. I guess I'm just being picky but ...
pneumatic tubes
underground post offices
land grabs
anal anxiety throbs
couple three's
offshore banks
pynchon words...
not just switches but Bakelite switches
lots of Capitalized Brand Name words
photography equipment that lets you go into alternate views
people who seemed to have died but who are resurrected
someone with Wolf in the name...
references to bombthrowing anarchists


will we have underground or inner earth realities? 
will we have scripophily or an auction or sentient rocks?


Original Message:
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From: Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:49:51 -0400
To: against.the.dave at gmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: IVIV (1) Intro


You're doing a bang up job so far, Dave. I could use a Jameson half
rocks, A 20 oz Sierra Nevada, and a fat sportello with an ashtray.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Okay, FINALLY ...
>
> As with AtD, I'm taking it as my personal mission not only simply to
> Look Things Up (via Google or otherwise, Mr. Mackin), but, also, to
> read the new novel with an eye and/or ear toward reflections,
> refractions, resemblances familiar and/or otherwise, echoes, samples,
> resonances and/or allusions (illusions? is the question one must
> always ask, at LEAST with Pynchon, so feel free to ask it) with the
> previous half-dozen novels et al., texts and then some (il n'y a pas
> de hors-texte?)  Pynchonian and/or otherwise.  Feel free of course not
> only to add, but also to subtract, extract, detract, whatever it
> takes.  Then do of course do so.  Looks like things proceeded more
> than well enough without me, let's just hope (as I do, at any rate),
> the Monrovian curse with its tragicomedic chorus of crickets doesn't
> ensue.  Chat amongst yrselves.  Mingle, mingle.  Let me know if
> there's anything I can get you.  Welcome to newcomers, rewelcome to
> oldcomers--Dave Monroe, rush chairman, damn glad to meet you.  Be
> cool, but care.  Await resilient Sportello's Empire. Ask whatever
> questions, and hope you get the right answers.  Or, at least,
> interesting ones.  Every dog, have yr day.  Have two, they're too
> short is it is.  And, of course, smoke 'em if you got 'em (I don't,
> but ...), and love the one yr with.  Or even against.  Either/or.
> Both/and.  U.s.w.  Et soforthiam ...
>
> Now everybody--
>


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