[Richard Ryan]

I would be happy to give AtD another chance if that were the next
read.  Didn't really get any traction with it the first time I tried.

M&D is a glory and I would also happily participate in that.

Anyone have an interest in a group read of The Recognitions?

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hear, hear!...(that's the part I like too!)...There, there!...Here, Here!.....
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> AtD is worth any number of Booker Man winners---and even better novels!
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
> To: richard.romeo at gmail.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Fri, February 4, 2011 10:58:38 AM
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> << ATD ... it's all that naive anarchist utopia romanticism that grates.
>>>That's the bit I liked!Seriously, though, as we all know ATD contains
> multitudes, and I'll take anarchist utopia romanticism over the sort of
> mealy-mouthed crap peddled by Ian McEwan in 'Saturday', for instance. As Lou
> Reed once sang, "This is no time for equivocation".I'll also tale teh firt 100
> pages or so of ATD against anything by anybody for about the last 10 years. At
> least.
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Richard Ryan
New York and the World
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The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty
of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises.
    -- Hannah Arendt