Against the Day Read-ux?

Henry M scuffling at gmail.com
Mon May 10 11:01:56 CDT 2010


How would the Total Pynchon Read (TPR) be any different from the
usual, ongoing No Group Pynchon Read (NGPR)?

AsB4,

Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20



On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Ian Livingston <Ian.Livingston at usd.edu> wrote:
> Hey, I like that idea. A nonlinear, spatially challenging approach
> highlighting apparently arbitrary relationships to a writer who
> frequently uses that sort of thing in his novels. Could prove very
> interesting, indeed. I'm ready to re-read V. again myself giving it a
> closer than usual read.
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:33 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There have been several, all pretty fertile. I got a lot from each,
>> but then V. is still the TP novel of which I'm most fond (not my
>> favourite, not what I consider the best, not the most challenging,
>> etc).
>>
>> Group reads have been a tough slog in recent years though - searching
>> the archives isn't much easier. The internet got all busy and
>> distracting and stuff.
>>
>> Maybe we should do a Total Pynchon Read: over a month or two everyone
>> who cares to re-reads whatever novel they want and posts comments and
>> queries as they go. A kind of trans-chronological survey of a great
>> writer. No hosts, no schedules, just a lot of resonant frequencies
>> echoing around the interwebs and perhaps casting a new light on half a
>> century of fine thinking.
>>
>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:20 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Date:   Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:28:29 -0700
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> From: keith woodward <woodwaka@[omitted]>
>>>
>>> 1:   September 21  Meg Larson
>>> 2:   October 5        Richard Romeo
>>> 3:   October 19      Burhan Tufail
>>> 4:   November 2     Eponine308
>>> 5:   November 16   Doug Millison
>>> 6:   November 30   Peter Petto
>>> HOLIDAY HIATUS  December 14 - January 3
>>> 7:   January 4        Keith Woodward
>>> 8:   January 18      Jeremy R.
>>> 9:   February 1      The Mascaro Snake
>>> 10: February 15     Chris K.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> How about V?  Did we ever do a group read of V, the TP book that I found the most challenging to read on my own?
>>>
>>
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> --
> "liber enim librum aperit."
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