Grasping for V. Group Read. Thomas Pynchon: 'I still don't even know for sure what a tendril is.'

[Ian Livingston]

Brave Sir Robin!

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
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> Thank God for Robin. Covers things no one else has the guts, or the ability,
> to tackle.
>
>> My responses will consist mainly of cheap potshots, political
>> broadsides having zero relevance to the passage in question, fart
>> jokes,  ad hominem attacks on a given P-lister's pathetic sex life and
>> malignant bodily odors, flames both bellicose and sophomoric, obscure
>> references to books no one really wants to read, genealogical charts
>> designed by Professor Irwin Corey and musicological references
>> provided by Lord Buckley. There will be a forty-page essay [with
>> footnotes] on nose-picking as signifier in TRP's early work that
>> expresses avuncular concern as to why the poor boy feels the need to
>> gross us out in the first place. In general, this will be one
>> prolonged thread-crap, intended to divert from any potential deeper
>> reading of the text, generally sounding like the work of a petulant 14
>> year old with the soul of "Ted" Kaczynski. I will do everything in my
>> power to ram the S.S. P-List into the Santa Monica Pier during a taco-
>> eating contest in the rain.
>>
>> No need to thank me in advance.
>>
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