On Group Reads

[David Meyer]

I'm down. I recently recommended AtD to a stranger. He'd only read the disappointed reviews and was surprised I thought it was so meaningful. 

He told me to read 'The Road' and I politely refused.

-d



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On May 11, 2010 12:14 PM, Aarnoud Rommens <aarnoud.rommens at gmail.com> wrote: 

i'd certainly be game for a close reading of AtD. it will conjure up links with other writings along the process, no doubt. so: yes!

a.



On 2010-05-11, at 12:55 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:



> Seems like a discussion of what to read next has generated more posts from more people

> than we have been seeing.       I think that's good. (I like lots of posts....I use this email address

> for Pynchon and just a few other things.....I think it is very easy to skim, skip or delete threads

> that are of little interest to me---or when I am too busy) 

> 

> I like the suggestion of a non-Pynchon book such as Augie March or others. But...

> 

> But, getting no younger and set in my ways, I sorta always want a Pynchon book to be being read

> on this list. Sorta its essence. 

> 

> If we want to read different ones, I hope posting can be more often than once a week which makes me fear

> a too general level of remarking............I prefer close reading, as I've said too often

>  and the back-and-forth of findings and interpretative resonances.

> 

> I have also kept up an irregular--and very miscellaneous----reading of books, writers, etc. who we know or think influenced TRP.

> The better to 'get' him; the better to 'feel' his work, imho. For me. 

> 

> I wonder if anyone else wants to do that?  Along with reading a Pynchon work?

> 

> Another thought: Have we ever considered reading the miscellaneous non-fiction pieces?........and commenting on their resonances,

> allusions, what we think we know about TRP from them. Where he said his mind was..at very times and about various things?  (Bits do come up A LOT in any discussion of a fiction....often a good dispute-settler)

> 

> That said: I am also rereading--and writing stuff on---Against the Day and, yes, it is THE BOOK we have so much more to learn how to read, I think. Tim Ware said at the first Pynchon conference which had papers about it, that it will take, maybe, ten years to learn how to read. At least [and the wiki and this

> list have shortened however long it will take......I once read a terrif essay on Hamlet in which the scholar argued that it took @200 years for we English language readers to learn how to read---start to 'get' Hamlet. Modern communication technology will compress that-----(and, no, he's not him anyway)---

> but it is SO RICH.........

> 

> I will say once ogain that there is lotsa circumstantial evidence that TRP began writing ATD when he finished GR. He put everything in it---including GR---

> which contains everything itself, in Tore Rye Anderson's great aphorism about both of them. 

> 

> So, THAT's my first vote......the others are second thru last. 

> 

> By the way: that  readers like self-described Robin and/or Alice have their particular foci........................is another wonderful thing about this

> list...............I look forward to another connection from Robin or Alice (and everyone who posts from a certain perspective. Ane we all have a perspective.) Pynchon is larger than, if not life,of course,  then most commentators on................

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