pynchon-l-digest V2 #6944

[Doug Millison]

Tim Ware is happy but I sense just a tad frantic, with deadline  
looming,  to announce that the wiki for Inherent Vice will be  
officially released  on August 4.

Sorry to say I had no bandwidth to help this time, as I was able to do  
with the Against the Day wiki which I helped to build prior to the  
release of that novel. (But I'm glad that the project I'm on as  
editorial chief, http://activnet.com/, is moving forward.  Some of you  
will like activnet, the Books activity area in particular is going to  
be fun.)

I've had a good look at the Inherent Vice wiki in progress and it's  
looking good, I'm pleased to report. Tim Ware continues to provide a  
service, above and beyond the call of duty, to Pynchon readers  
everywhere, as he has for years with his Pynchon web sites.

Separately, on a topic I noticed in a recent digest, I suggest that  
Pynchon, in putting a novel by Henry James in the hands of a canine  
reader, seems to be making a point about that author, or his art, or  
both.  It doesn't feel to me like an altogether flattering picture of  
James, but the dog's cool ;)