V2nd, C3

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Sat Jul 17 09:57:05 CDT 2010


insert after had little . . .  or nothing much in common with JJ

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:55 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> I rather enjoy the "paranoid" and open-the margins reader response
> approach to literature; it can ring my bell, beh el elll, ring my
> bell. I wonder if young P, who writes not at all like Joyce, and
> certainly had little, other than his struggle with the catholic stuff,
> which, doesn't show any maturity until GR, had even read Joyce by
> 1963.
>
>
>> "Have you read his F? O yes, but I prefer Q. Yes, but ... one reads
>> these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with
>> one who once..."
>>
>> I don't even have to care if Pynchon was thinking about that line when
>> he titled V.  It still rings my chimes.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Yippy dippy dippy,
>> Flippy zippy zippy,
>> Smippy gdippy gdippy, too!
>> - Thomas Pynchon ("'Zo Meatman's Gone AWOL")
>>
>



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