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[Lawrence Bryan]

Thank you. I should have mentioned that the reference Dave posted was what I used to retrieve the snippet. Thank you, Dave.

Now I find myself spending too much time rereading 16 year old stuff. I wonder how many current p-list followers were active back then.

Lawrence aka grip 

On Jul 16, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Bekah wrote:

> I went to 
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> http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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> then clicked on July 95,  then found July 28,  then your address and that was you.   Then I sorted by author.
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> Good luck!
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> Bekah
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> On Jul 16, 2011, at 4:26 PM, Lawrence Bryan wrote:
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>> 
>> Thank you! I googled pynchon archive and got  
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>> 	Pynchon-L Archives 
>> 	Instructions for joining the PYNCHON-L mailing list
>> 	Search The Pynchon-L Archive	with Andrew Dinn's engine
>> 	Archive:	
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>> 			Copyright © 1995-97 San Narciso Community College
>> 
>> which didn't work. 
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>> 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.
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>> Here is a post from 1995:
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>> 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...
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>> Are all his books like this? Should I bother to order Recognitions?
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>> grip
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>> On Jul 16, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net> wrote:
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>>>> 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 :
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>>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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