Inherent Vice: The Boston Phoenix

[Robin Landseadel]

I suspect that for many people, Gravity's Rainbow is their absolute  
limit of comprehensible text, and a lot of people never get through  
it. That makes it's something of an Everest for readers, like "War &  
Peace" was for previous generations, and a mark of "breeding" [ew!]

You must recall:

	 . . .that snooty prep school at which Lisa Simpson once
	matriculated. Spotting a book under her classmate's arm, Lisa
	says, "Oh -- so you're reading Thomas Pynchon's 'Gravity's
	Rainbow'?" The disdainful reply: "Re-reading, of course."

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/24/entertainment/et-greatbooks24

IV ain't gonna become one of those snooty prep-school books, no-siree— 
though it might turn up as standard browsing fare at "compassionate  
care" clinics and other bake-offs.

On Jul 29, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Joe Allonby wrote:

> I know where his office is.
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:25 AM, David Morris<fqmorris at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> "Four decades after his shortest and in some ways best novel, The  
>> Crying of
>> Lot 49 (1966)"
>>
>> He probably hasn't read GR.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Robin Landseadel
>> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just remember: Pynchon's
>>> Great,Great,Great,Great,Great,Great,Great,Great,Great, Grandfather  
>>> had his
>>> book burned in Boston too:
>>>
>>> http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/87111-Surf-bored/
>>
>>