chapter 6 is up for grabs.

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Welcome to the group read, Ron.  None of us are sure what we can contribute, yet we blather on.  No tie necessary, but regular doses of caffeine are suggested, along with the mind-altering substance of your choice.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Judy <sem4phore at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jun 13, 2010 9:53 AM
>To: grladams at teleport.com
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: chapter 6 is up for grabs.
>
>Dear y'all,
>
>Long-term lurker and list fan here, looking to take up Chapt. 6 of
>V.-read if Jill really isn't up for it. It's been a while since I
>looked at this novel, not sure what I can contribute, and I'm a list
>newb, but I could use a close re-reading of this work.
>
>At your service,
>
>- Ron Judy
>
>PS: what (if any) are the rules for group reads? For example, do I
>need to wear a tie?
>
>
>On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:30 PM, grladams at teleport.com
><grladams at teleport.com> wrote:
>> Hey y'all,
>>  I can't do it. I just don't like V. I picked it up and tried reading it
>> and I won't be a host for chapter 6. There are so many other books I need
>> to read before I can even <be> well rounded enough to even comment on
>> references, you know? I hope there is time to find someone else. Sorry,
>> -Jill
>>
>> Original Message:
>> -----------------
>> From:  kelber at mindspring.com
>> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:43:04 -0400 (EDT)
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: Down with more prolegomena! Give me a V. .....
>>
>>
>> http://www.thomaspynchon.com/covers/v_cvr.html
>>
>> The Picador edition is the only one that doesn't add the ".".
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>>>Sent: Jun 11, 2010 7:06 AM
>>>To: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
>>>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>>Subject: Re: Down with more prolegomena! Give me a V. .....
>>>
>>>Richard Ryan asks:
>>>Interesting but reference please?
>>>
>>>Only in my scholarly dreams do i have everything on file.....I believe it
>> was in one of his letters to Cork Smith in the sixties...those ones his
>> agent sold....
>>>
>>>But "So the letter "V" is in
>>>fact a by its very nature a code for something else, something bigger
>>>or other.  The inverted tip of the iceberg."
>>>
>>>Yes, I say whether I've invented p's remark or not....
>>>
>>>
>>>A good Derridean would say the mark (and perhaps the Mark as well) was
>>>fundamentally indeterminate.  In any case, the period appears to make
>>>the letter an initial, or part of an acronym.  So the letter "V" is in
>>>fact a by its very nature a code for something else, something bigger
>>>or other.  The inverted tip of the iceberg.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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>-- 
>Ron S. Judy, PhD
>Assistant Professor of English
>Dept. Applied Foreign Languages
>Chung Yuan Christian University