cracking DeepArcher

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I read Pierre, Or the Ambiguities on my honeymoon. I was an idiot. No wonder the marriage did not last. 

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On Oct 4, 2013, at 4:41 PM, "Monte Davis" <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> Good heavens, stay away from _Pierre_. Gunshots on Broadway, a darkly
> portentous essay on “Chronometricals and Horologicals,” a stone giant, silly
> names (Delly Ulver, Plotinus Plinlimmon) – no Pynchon enthusiast could put
> up with such handsprings and caracols. 
> 
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
> Of Rev'd Seventy-Six
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 3:46 PM
> To: Monte Davis
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: cracking DeepArcher
> 
> Hiiiigh Magics, Low Puns.
> 
> (That Cloud of Unknowing ref. makes me want to revisit Underworld again.)
> 
> Man, I keep hearing all this grumbling about how shallow & unrewarding folks
> found BE, but the closer I peer the more the thing flowers.  Maybe it's the
> benefit of my being a self-taught idjit & wannabe artist, maybe it's my
> parents having been an agnostic electrical polymath & a witchy painter
> slumming in the ad biz, maybe it's me being a runaway from the sticks who's
> spent 18 years learning how to be a grownup without losing my native sense
> of wonder, but this is a fucking excellent book, esp. for being disguised as
> a genre exercise.  P. speaks to me, if not all of ye.
> 
> Looking forward to giving it a third read.  Gonna give it a few months, tho.
>  I've got to plow through Melville's 'Pierre' first.
> 
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