20,000 emails down...

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Nov 18 22:42:22 CST 2013


Relative to what?

On Monday, November 18, 2013, Keith Davis wrote:

> It is a really good novel.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>
> On Nov 18, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fionashnapple at gmail.com');>>
> wrote:
>
> We have a group read going. We named it beer. It's going nice and slow. We
> have threads going on the BE that are tagged with a spoiler. Not sure if
> the tag is necessary, appreciated, expected? I don't care for it. Several
> threads got me thinking a lot. I'm learning slowly. lots of Orwell and
> Adams. I do love this novel. Though I'm still working at why, one reason is
> Maxine. I love Maxine, her family, her friends, lovers,  job, her point of
> view, her worlds and zones.
>
> On Monday, November 18, 2013, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> Where to begin, that is probably what we are wondering...
>> Alice Wellinton appeared and dazzled us with erudition and opinionation,
>> anti IV ("it's a piece of crap") but high on Secret Integration and Slow
>> Learner preface, also prone to bring Bartleby up in a thought provoking
>> way...only bowing out recently; Fiona seems to be angling for a similar
>> spot, but she actually likes the new title.
>> Glenn Scheper joined Toastmasters after a near death experience, lost his
>> software engineering job and stopped posting, he is missed though is on
>> Linked in as a tv producer (infomercials?) so, alive and well at least.
>> Dave Monroe's library gig was downsized but he carries on valiantly dj'ing
>> and supplying amazing links.  Bekah is retired, with more time for reading.
>> Laura Kelber tried to unsubscribe, but just when she thought she was out...
>> well, you know...
>> John Carvill isn't wild about the new book but still has some interesting
>> thoughts.  his website oomska.co.uk has contributions from several
>> plisters including myself but the standout piece imho is his writing on
>> Annie Hall...Mark Kohut reread all of Shakespeare, and Against the Day.
>> Also I think he went to the G10 concert, er, meeting in Baltimore or
>> someplace...jbor has been quiet and is missed.  Shortly before leaving he
>> mentioned having read the entire plist archive to that point, hope it
>> didn't cause him distress...robin landseadel took a hiatus to focus on
>> yantras and tarot card paintings, very nice ones at that...he's a "yea"
>> vote for the new novel although I think he liked IV better...Joseph Tracy
>> deplores what appears to be rampant acceptance of capitalism in BE yet
>> perhaps will agree with the excoriation of Rios Montt therein, at least.
>> Monte shared some interesting info recently, pursuant to the ongoing
>> paranoia/conspiracy themes.
>> I could go on and on...oops, I think I already have...anyone else want to
>> help bring Mr Gentle into the ongoing current?
>> On Nov 14, 2013 3:37 PM, "David Gentle" <gentle_family at btinternet.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So, during the run up it IV I stopped reading the list. The idea being
>>> to read the book first and then start reading the backlog of messages. By
>>> the time I got a copy of IV and read it I had 20000 emails "marked as
>>> unread". I've sporadicaly tried to catch up but didn't make much progress
>>> until the last wekk when I just went through all of them. Many I ignored
>>> but others I read.
>>> Obviously there are some things I missed on the wasy through them.
>>> Anything interesting happen in the last few years?
>>>
>>> David Gentle
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>
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