cracking DeepArcher

[malignd at aol.com]

Maybe it's because you're a boring, tedious narcissist.  We all have stories, Rev.


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.






-----Original Message-----
From: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
To: 'Rev'd Seventy-Six' <revd.76 at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, Oct 4, 2013 8:18 pm
Subject: RE: cracking DeepArcher


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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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l

 
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