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  
> 
> 	Pynchon-L Archives 
> 	Instructions for joining the PYNCHON-L mailing list
> 	Search The Pynchon-L Archive	with Andrew Dinn's engine
> 	Archive:	
> 	Keyword 	
> 	Author:	
> 	[ To Pynchon Page ] 
> 			Copyright © 1995-97 San Narciso Community College
> 
> 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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