First Page of Bleeding Edge?

[Prashant Kumar]

Agree. AtD is unbearably beautiful.

P.

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Markekohut wrote:

> Okay, I'm not going to defend IV, nor this one but I am going to say the
> hidden density of AtD
> Is still virtually untapped.
> GR is expressive, in-your-face density. Like the greatest of German
> expressionists. Munch?
> Against the Day is the work of a magician of concealment. One of the
> greatest landscape artists
> Ever---Turner with light writ so large it covers walls.
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Apr 16, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Exactly. It was those mind expanding sentences in GR that when I read
> one I had to mentally catch my breath and wonder in amazement. And they
> were just piled one on top of another, seemingly, in that book. You can see
> glimpses of that kind of writing in his later books (especially M&D), but
> only here and there. I think revisiting that kind of dense connected
> writing is what I always hope for in a new Pynchon book. How many times can
> one read IV? After reading GR some 6 or 7 times I still read it with a
> newly born excitement.
> > Here's to hoping.
> > Rich
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> > --- On Tue, 4/16/13, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
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> > From: kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
> > Subject: Re: First Page of Bleeding Edge?
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 5:11 PM
> >
> > #yiv1570882932 body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,
> sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}#yiv1570882932
> p{margin:0px;}What's missing the most from VL, IV, and this early fragment
> of the new novel, are those mind-expanding sentences and passages that take
> you in multiple directions: organic chemistry tied to fascism, literacy as
> oppression, etc. Pynchon's not our go-to person for apt descriptions of
> hippie California or Yuppie NYC - plenty of sources there.  What made him
> great before the existence of the internet - his ability to see
> connections, and take us places we might never get on our own - are less
> exciting in the present, when all of us have the ability to become
> demi-gods, accessing information, if not insight, by tapping in to the
> nearest search engine. I'm not dismissing the new novel on the basis of
> that one excerpt. It may or may not be typical of the entire work. I
> sincerely hope it's not.
> > Laura
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > From: malignd at aol.com
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> > Sent: Apr 16, 2013 6:01 PM
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> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
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> > Subject: Re: First Page of Bleeding Edge?
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> > Write what you want, of course, but these Norman Rockwell images (I
> think first tossed in here by Millison) of TP and Jackson (wearing Yankee
> caps, Pynch teaching Jackson how to tie a fly) are retch provoking.  For
> all anybody knows he whipped the brat with a belt for failing to memorize
> the entirety of COL49.
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> > Nothing like the Great P. who rode the Golem & the Rocket, who Wrote
> those other tomes, but so very dear and, yes Mark, Warm & Intimate,
> affectionate as if Jackson was peaking at an early draft of his father's
> work for the first time.
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > From: Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>
> >
> > To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> >
> > Cc: Tyler Wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com>; Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>;
> jamie <jamie at bigdada.com>; Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com>;
> “pynchon-l at waste.or
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> > g“ <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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> > Sent: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 2:05 pm
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> > Subject: Re: First Page of Bleeding Edge?
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> > Nothing like the Great P. who rode the Golem & the Rocket, who Wrote
> those other tomes, but so very dear and, yes Mark, Warm & Intimate,
> affectionate as if Jackson was peaking at an early draft of his father's
> work for the first time.
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