Happy Birthday, Against the Day!

[Werner Presber]

The 22.11 is my Birthday. My present was ATD. :-)

Am 22.11.2011 um 18:45 schrieb Mark Kohut:

> Five years ago today, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, also the 22nd  
> of November, I think. (and hope, but am not checking, 'cause
> then it wouldn't be the EXACT birthday day) "Against the Day" was  
> published---and went on sale.
>
> Where were YOU that day? When did you get your copy?  I bought mine  
> at a Borders in Chicago, from a big display, (called a dump)--never  
> expected this--- and took one to my oldest college buddy with whose  
> family I spent Thanksgiving that year. Thrills started with Pugnax &  
> the Henry James Princess C. allusion, quiet laughter with Pugnax  
> pissing over the side (and the joke about messages from the sky) and  
> the depth charge of meaning started with me at the trip down the  
> slaughterhouse chute and Ferdinand playing the dozens at the  
> Stockyards.
>
> But I would have been as superficial a reader as your average movie- 
> goer without the plist readers, very nice to have met you, AND the  
> wiki.....
>
> Tim Ware's wonderful wiki started accepting contirbutors that day as  
> well, I guess, (although as in most terrif projects, hours
> of prep work had already gone into it) so, I salute him at five  
> years too, remembering his optimistic remark given at the following
> Pynchon conference that "it would take us at least ten years" to  
> begin to get the book, which is easily true, so, as Janeites keep  
> rereading
> her work, we all oughta keep rereading Against the Day---about equal  
> in words to Jane's six novels, I would guess---and the rest
> of pynchon's works.....
>