Backing and filling on Against the Day...and for Master of Petersburg plist readers

[Mark Kohut]

As with certain concepts, such as Shambala, he doesn't 'reduce' certain events.............they lie behind...............

--- On Thu, 7/30/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Backing and filling on Against the Day...and for Master of  Petersburg plist readers
> To: "Carvill, John" <john.carvill at sap.com>
> Cc: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 10:00 AM
> The grim facre which was the
> Feerdinand assassination is well worth
> reading about. I still puzzle over why Pynchon excluded it
> from ATD.
> ______
> too obvious, like no mention of JFK murder in Lot 49,
> a  book about
> conspiracy? and in 1964-65, yikes
> ah, our Pyncher is a subtle devil--what better way to
> foreground the
> horror of the filth-filled trenches by having Kit almost
> drown in the
> filth of gallons of mayonnaise? by example
> 
> rich
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/30/09, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com>
> wrote:
> > << Well, whatever Norman Stone is, TRP seems to
> share the expressed view
> > of
> > the Germans (as a Nation-State) re the History of the
> two world wars.
> > Examples citing Germany are legion in his
> books...>>
> >
> > Yes yes. I wasn't making any big hostorical point. But
> Norman Stone is
> > well known, over here, as a right-wing windbag
> semi-celebrity academic.
> > And Princip is an odd figure to pick to 'agree with'
> or use to make a
> > point. That's all.
> >
> > The grim facre which was the Feerdinand assassination
> is well worth
> > reading about. I still puzzle over why Pynchon
> excluded it from ATD.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>