First Page of Bleeding Edge?

[Henry M]

I was unclear.  It reads like a Pynchon blurb, and I don't sense any of the
characteristics of a first page.  Ya know, the ones that we were
speculating on.  Some of the sentences are purposely very short and
simple.  Sure TRP has the chops to write a Good as Gold book in that
manner, but IMO Good as Gold may have been Heller's best work, but such a
book wouldn't be one of Pynchon's better works.

Yours truly,
٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
Henry Musikar, CISSP
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Tyler Wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com> wrote:

> This isn't directed at you, Mark, or any one person in particular, but:
>
> How do we know this is the first page, other than it certainly does read
> like an opener? Wouldn't have to be, though. The IV excerpt was, but the
> AtD snippet certainly wasn't.
>
> I'm just curious whether there was some official word that I may have
> missed?
>
> I've got a good feeling about this one!
> --
> T
>
>
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> CC: scuffling at gmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
> From: markekohut at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: First Page of Bleeding Edge?
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:14:47 -0400
> To: jamie at bigdada.com
>
>
> Bobby Dylan performed 'close enough for folk music ', as the phrase goes,
> near me over the weekend and I wanted to go ' but the unswerving
> punctuality of chance'--Gaddis --intervened.
>
> Anyway, the local reviewer praised Dylan's warmth and intimacy' which I
> think is a good phrase to describe my feelings about the first page of
> BLEEDING EDGE.
>
> As wonderfully warm and happiness-embracing as, maybe, the opening of
> Mason & Dixon yet
> soon full of the hints of danger that exist in happy bourgeois lives (
> like ours; like his?)---the possibility of careening cars; the danger of '
> rolling aluminum' scooters---that reminded me of
> places within Against the Day like that.
>
> We remember the 'socially utopian' happy merging of cars at the end of
> Inherent Vice--an anarchic working out in practice, in California in 1970;
> here we have the feared (paranoid?)
> possibility of a car out of control.
>
> And in that essay on cars in Pynchon someone will write, we
> Think of V, 50 this year of BLEEDING EDGE.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Jamie Big Dada <jamie at bigdada.com> wrote:
>
> Reads very much like Pynchon to me. Brilliant opening and an excellent
> teaser!
>
>
>
> http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/first-page-of-thomas-pynchon-novel-bleeding-edge
>
> Yours truly,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Musikar, CISSP
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
>
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