Gibson

[alice wellintown]

There are fans and fanatics and the fans root for the home team, and
when the home team swings and misses and loses, the fans are still
fans. The fanatics, however, never quite relax and enjoy the game or
admire the opposition, even go so far as to absurdly  deny the
opposition's necessity by reducing them to the away team, as in, away
from what a fanatic's fanatical perspective takes in or allows into
view.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> And Crying of Lot 49 fans.
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Mar 26, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Carvill, John wrote:
>>
>>> Heh. Everybody liked it. It's a hit. The reviews were all great. Only some
>>> Pynchon fans hated it. But what do they know eh?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Finally, someone else who liked it.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A tweet from William Gibson (@GreatDismal,
>>>> http://twitter.com/GreatDismal):
>>>>
>>>> I can't read much fiction at all, when in writing mode. (Pynchon's
>>>> Inherent Vice was a brilliant, welcome and inspiring exception.)
>>
>> Well, there's Pynchon fans and then there's Gravity's Rainbow fans.
>>
>> I suspect there might even be a few Inherent Vice fans.
>>
>