[Mark Kohut]

I just so love the way I get bounced to different perceptions, to radical 
otherness sometimes
during these group reads when participation is rife and passsionate.............

I'll read whatever but I, like a Janeite, always want to be rereading a Pynchon 
now and i am....
Maybe we might read--or for some of those experts in the Gaddis group, reread 
again----The Recognitions
there?....

2 cents


----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
To: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, February 5, 2011 10:31:55 AM
Subject: Re:

I didn't participate much in the Pale Fire reading but I remember a
number of listers rather liking the experience.  I did participate in
the Master of Petersburg reading and enjoyed that quite a lot.  As to
whether or not those group reads positively impacted the list....how
could one know?

The connection and differences between TRP and WG would alone,
methinks, make the exercise compelling.

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> Not really. Despite the fact that personally I am not interested in that
> author, I may remind you of
> the Nabokov read ("Pale Fire") which was done by a small sub-group here on
> Pynchon-list some years ago. Neither did it improve our knowledge of the
> novel itself, nor had it any positive impact on the list.
>
> (Of course I'm fully aware that this statement of mine did not exactly
> reduce the probability of a Gaddis group read here.)
>
> Just sayin' ...
>
> KFL
>
>
> On 05.02.2011 12:10, Richard Ryan wrote:
>
>> Recognitions consensus forming?
>>
>
>
>
>



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