Book Review: BLEEDING EDGE

[Michael Bailey]

On Dec 30, 2013 9:00 PM, "Fiona Shnapple" <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
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> All decent critiques of the novel, but they are all ultimately down to
the reader, or in this case, reviewer, telling Pynchon to stick to his
strengths and write in his comfort zone so that he, the reviewer can be
amazed by P's talent. Like telling Kubrick to stick to Spartacus.

Well, if he had, thousands - maybe millions - of stoners would've missed
out on 2001...yes, including me...or as Mad Magazine lampooned it, 201
minutes of space idiocy...

-The Mobil servers thar Reg and Eric are driving from the Microsoft campus
East through Montana

interesting typo, if it is one, seeing as you capitalize the M so as to
suggest Mobil Oil, which i love their Pegasus logo ... by this do you mean
to suggest they are easily traceable by their petrol purchases, and/or
still in thralldom
to big business or, that they are doing some detournement here?
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