Syllabus

[Mark Kohut]

I second MB below on the Companions........

Read them with the original and follow what you most feel you need to
in their recommendations........

If you read all the background stuf first, you will miiss that experience
most of us had of being semi-lost the first time.............


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, March 20, 2011 2:55:25 AM
Subject: Re: Syllabus

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Norman O Brown

for background on IG Farben, et al:
http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/

(all for Gravity's Rainbow, mostly)

many more ideas in the various guides, such as

_Companion to V._ (J Kerry Grant)


Weissenburger's _Gravity's Rainbow Companion_
http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780820322506-1

Pynchon Notes
http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html


The Modern Word's Pynchon section, "Spermatikos Logos"
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/index.html

also the invaluable pynchonwiki.com

somebody recently put a guide to _Against the Day_ out:
http://www.amazon.com/Pynchons-Against-Day-Corrupted-Pilgrims/dp/1611490642/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300604041&sr=8-1