Sorry

[Bekah]

I've dug the old unread copy of TR out of the TBR mountain and am considering downloading the audio version Eric (I believe)  said he was enjoying.    I'm very busy at work right now but not for long -  (getting ready to retire in a few months) .  

Bekah

On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Emma Wrigley wrote:

> Well my copy has just been dispatched by Amazon. Who knows, I may be able to take part in this one as I shall hopefully maintain net access. On the other hand, I haven't touched this work before so it will inevitably be an uphiill climb / fell run in the snow.
> 
> Emma
> <-----Original Message-----> 
> From: Michael Bailey [michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com]
> >Sent: 23/3/2011 11:49:47 PM
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: Re: Sorry
> >
> >so, the game is afoot?
> >
> >weighing the comments, I have been impressed by some of the misgivings
> >people have expressed.
> >
> >However, that sentiment has an uphill climb in my mind for several reasons:
> >
> >1) first, over the years an accumulation of positive comments about TR
> >on this list has led me to purchase and actually start the book - but
> >haven't been able to sustain the effort to read it alone
> >
> >2) second, the enthusiasm of Mr Burns is contagious
> >
> >3) third, we have covered together since 2005 when I became active on
> >this list all Mr Pynchon's novels except Gravity's Rainbow (Toby's
> >MD3PAD not quite a full-blown group read, but very helpful; Vineland
> >and V, CofL49, and especially AGTD) - and because I was involved in
> >the abortive attempt at GR, I'm wary of rallying anyone to another
> >try, although I strongly think it needs to be done eventually. I have
> >a similar attraction/avoidance dilemma with the idea of doing another
> >AgTD read so soon. A digression sometimes is the best way to get
> >where you want to go when you don't see a direct route...so...perhaps
> >at the end of all our journeyings we will find ourselves screaming
> >across the sky and singling up all our lines (with a little bit of
> >bloomin' luck)
> >
> >4) fourth, like Pluto or Uranus or one of those outer planets, I have
> >a notion that TR is exerting a far-out, little-known or -appreciated
> >influence, knowledge of which could be helpful in grokking Mr
> >Pynchon's work in greater fullness than hitherto, and indeed in
> >mapping the literary universe with better granularity!
> >
> >5) fifth, that "Brenda inside/outside" reference showing up in V. if
> >intentional buttresses point 4, and even if not intentional (though
> >I'm inclined to think it is), it is still an example of the kind of
> >writing that I've been groomed by reading the Pynchon canon and
> >suchlike works to cherish and savor - and TR, as I already know from
> >the first hundred or so pages, is rich in such use of the language
> >
> >
> > Mark Kohut wrote:
> >> Maybe that's what we can call the Group Read:
> >> Desecrating The Recognitions. or Anarchic Pynchon cultists desecrate The
> >> Recognitions.
> >
> >dictionary.com has a nice alternate meaning:
> >
> >Word Origin & History
> >
> >desecrate
> >1674, formed from de- "do the opposite of" + (con)secrate. O.Fr. had
> >dessacrer "to profane," and there is a similar formation in It.; but
> >L. desecrare meant "to make holy," with de- in this case having a
> >completive sense.
> >
> >
> >Jed Kelestron wrote:
> >>
> >> But I'm just checking to make sure this is all working so I can enjoy the
> >> desecration of The Recognitions in this venue.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >it's all working about as well as it ever has...
> >glad to see you!
> >.
> >