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[Lawrence Bryan]

Thank you! I googled pynchon archive and got  

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 which didn't work. 

Way back then I was using grip at netcom.com for all email. I wonder if my brain has changed enough since then to give him a try again.

Here is a post from 1995:

From: <grip@[omitted]> 
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 18:14:04 -0700 (PDT) 
Subject: Gaddis 
To: jporter <jp4321@[omitted]> 

After reading several references to Gaddis, I thought I'd give him a try. 
So I picked up a copy of his latest(?) "A Frolic of His Own" and JR. 
Doesn't he have a keyboard with a quotation mark key? Is this supposed to 
be cute or is there some arcane reason for having pages and pages of 
dialogue mixed together with descriptive passages. I am unable to get 
anything out of this without an excrutiating effort which frankly after a 
hundred pages or doesn't seem worth it. Does one ever get used to not 
knowing if a character is talking or if the author is narrating without 
stopping and going back and rereading from the last -?

Sorry about intruding with WG on TRP's bailiwick, but this is wherte I 
learned of the existence of WG, so...

Are all his books like this? Should I bother to order Recognitions?

grip




On Jul 16, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> 
>> Are the ancient archives irretrievably lost? I mean stuff from the early '90s? There was a discussion of Gaddis way back then. Don't recall the details.
> 
> ... except for, off the top of my head, some stuff of his Jules Siegel
> had forcibly removed, it all seems @ least to still be there :
> 
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>