Back once more...
Bekah
bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 16 18:49:15 CDT 2011
I went to
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
then clicked on July 95, then found July 28, then your address and that was you. Then I sorted by author.
Good luck!
Bekah
On Jul 16, 2011, at 4:26 PM, Lawrence Bryan wrote:
>
> 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
>>
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