IV Blog Teaser

[Mark Kohut]

Rich,

Not to argue over your judgment about your favorites and why, BUT whatever one thinks of AtD and almost all find faults and many find lotsa weakness, it seems impossible to me to think he wrote it fast....from end of M & D to pub, almost nine years...

THERE is too much densely buried in it, even if you think much is uncongealed.....

Fact-checking the slang....getting the history down...and more and more..

My 2 cents.

--- On Fri, 7/17/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IV Blog Teaser
> To: "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Kai Frederik Lorentzen" <lorentzen at hotmail.de>, fqmorris at gmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 11:44 AM
> I can give Pynchon a pass for
> Vineland which has its moments but also
> curdles my stomach in many places but to sort've cover the
> same ground
> again I may not be so forgiving
> 
> and the quip that IV does not have those authorial
> digressions, well
> that is one of the reasons I read the guy
> 
> but let me read the thing first before I vent anymore
> 
> i'm thinking more and more that he spent alot of time on
> Mason & Dixon
> (my fav of tho post-GR books)
> 
> Vineland, AtD, and pbly IV, too were written quickly (even
> keepng in
> mind AtD's length)
> 
> rich
>