Reading styles

[Keith Davis]

Something occurred to me as a result of a discussion off-list, and
connecting with a previous discussion about the "Pynchon blurb list". I'm
reading something that presents certain difficulties, and I'm enjoying it,
and part of the reason is that it's making me change my reading style, the
same thing that happened when I first read Mr. P and other writers that
I've come to love and respect.

I made a comment about reading some of the books that our esteemed Mr. P
had written blurbs for and someone commented that they all sucked, which I
found both amusing and interesting (if there's a difference). Now, with the
current discussion, I'm wondering if our fearless leader blurbed some of
those books because they gave him that same experience, of causing him to
have to read in a different way, possibly expanding the possibilities,
feeding his curiosity and sense of literary adventurousness. Just a
possibly random thought.

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