IVIV (1) Intro

[Mark Kohut]

'Goofy fun', such a constant stream in TRPs works, gets its own book. 



--- On Wed, 8/26/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (1) Intro
> To: grladams at teleport.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 10:15 AM
> I really hope this is not how Pynchon
> sums up his career
> 
> maybe if he wrote IV in 1970 i'd be more impressed (well,
> i'd be only
> 6 so I'd be impressed with most things ;)
> 
> don't wanna say the novel is pointless, but its really
> a  vehicle for
> alot of goofy fun. no harm in that. we just expect more
> from Pynchon
> 
> it'd be like if Joyce wrote after Finnegans Wake something
> like Four
> Weddings and a Funeral
> 
> with that said, our discussions on IV are interesting
> rich
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/25/09, grladams at teleport.com
> <grladams at teleport.com>
> wrote:
> > 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:
> > -----------------
> > 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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