NP - Frank Miller's Charlie Brown

[Kevin Dunn]

As a new initiate and convert to TRP's dark tower of erudition, I have yet
to read V., though I enjoy the idea that I inadvertently referenced one of
his seminal works in my description of the fact that Eastern Philosophy has
been co-opted fully into the mainstream. Synchronicity, anyone? I definitely
enjoy the discussions on the list, and several people have posted very
interesting ideas and links.  I am currently working my way through AtD, and
wonder if there might be someone on the list with whom I could begin a
discussion of the aforementioned text. The AtD wiki seems a good start for
my excursion through the labyrinth, though some of the posts are rather
trite, unhelpful, or involve contradicting information. Any redirection to
useful papers and/or books on AtD could be helpful too. Are most people on
the list living in the NY area? I live in NYC myself, and wonder whether
this list is comprehensive nationally, or simply a subset covering the NY
area. Any other helpful edification regarding the nature of this list would
be most helpful too.  The books I have read most recently are: Netherland,
by Joseph O'Neill; Rant, by Chuck Palahniuk (Second reading, I would be
interested to see if anyone here is also a Palahniuk-ophile); Slow Man, and
Disgrace, by JM Coetzee; Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie; and various
mathematics texts (I am a algebraist and I revel in Pynchon's use of
mathematical ideas in fiction - I never thought anyone else besides me would
include discussions of such fields as Vector Analysis and Quaternions in
their fiction!) Maybe I could serve as a mathematical consultant when such
ideas come up. Anyway, thanks for welcoming me into your discussions, and I
look forward to all our discourse in the future.

Kevin Dunn

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Isn't it like the sewer in V.?
>
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Kevin Dunn <kevindunn27 at gmail.com>
> To: Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com>
> Cc: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:36:55 AM
> Subject: Re: NP - Frank Miller's Charlie Brown
>
> Underemployed, personally, & continuing to look for a suitable position for
> my math degree. Though I am getting some great fiction material: the Eastern
> Philosophy bookstore & cafe I work at has a thin veneer of Zen that hides
> the volcanic undercurrent of rabid, unfettered capitalism that so underlies
> all of NYC - indeed, precisely like the hidden river of ectoplasm in
> Ghostbusters II.
>
> Kevin
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 12, 2009, at 2:51 PM, "Henry Musikar" <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So sorry about your impending unemployment, Glenn.  Chin up, you're not
> alone.  I'm looking for work myself.  Anyone else?  Are all the
> anarcho-leftist P-listers employed?
> >
> > All (about me),
> >
> > Henry Mu
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Glenn Scheper
> >
> >> to make it all as self-referential as possible
> >
> > Well, of course! Everything connects....TO ME!
> >
> > Hey, if this lurker falls of the end of the world,
> > it's 'cuz my job will become a statistic on Apr 3.
> >
> > As I told a coworker, this is all the working out of
> > Revelation's fall of Babylon the Great, who made all
> > nations drink the wine of the wrath of her fornication
> > (toxic credit), and soon end of this world or age, etc.
> >
> > I went on thus for a few minutes.
> > And he soberly replied,
> > "Or, it could just be Tuesday."
> >
> > Surely, someone would feed an unemployed homeless person.
> > My "problem" is only an irrational attachment to my debt.
> >
> > Yours truly,
> > Glenn Scheper
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eglenn_scheper/>
> > glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
> > Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
> >
> >
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