chapter 6 is up for grabs.

[Michael Bailey]

 Robin Landseadel wrote:

>
> Laura is striking valid points in the "V. is crap" argument. It's not that
> V. is crap in the sense that T'n'A made of IV,

Imho(tep), he made some interesting points that prove that IV isn't a
good example
of certain things, but nothing that circumscribed what it is and evaluated that

> it's more like that guy that
> the older Pynchon doubts he'd want a drink with. What's painful in the first
> chapter is just how un-evolved his voice is, how flat the characters are,
> how he is, so far, deaf and dumb as regards tone. Tone and nuance is what
> the man improves as he grows up.

yeah, but remember what it was like to be young?
Youth, ah youth....

>
> BTW, what do we call this hot mess? I vote for "V-2" as this is the second
> group read of the group. However, I am a traditional unreliable narrator,
> feel free to admonish and castigate me as you see fit.
>

I thought Mark Kohut as point(s)man had chosen Grasping Toward V.?

-- 
Yippy dippy dippy,
Flippy zippy zippy,
Smippy gdippy gdippy, too!
- Thomas Pynchon ("'Zo Meatman's Gone AWOL")