This week in pointless trivia.

[Carvill John]

Although there were many frustrations to reading ATD, I frequently made excuses to carve out time to read it: many times, for instance, Instead of driving to work, i drove to a train station, parked my car, and took a train to work just so I could go on reading. I took the book with me when I went to collect a takeaway curry, so I could read during the couple of minutes' waiting time,etc. with BE, I am finding excuses not to read it. I still haven't finished but I'm reasonably confident now that my assessment will not radically shift: this is by far Pynchon's least impressive work. I'll go further: this is a bad book.


CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
From: markekohut at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: This week in pointless trivia.
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 19:45:56 -0400
To: kelber at mindspring.com; johncarvill at hotmail.com

Well, that's that, et tu, John? 

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On Oct 5, 2013, at 4:34 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

One argument that cannot be made successfully: that those of us who didn't enjoy the book, actually did enjoy it. I forced myself to finish the book, and no hints at deeper meanings, clever puns or pop references can change that fact.
Laura
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From: Carvill John 

Sent: Oct 5, 2013 3:42 PM

To: Fiona Shnapple , "pynchon-l at waste.org" 

Subject: RE: This week in pointless trivia.






Ok, for a skeptic, defend BE. What would your argument(s) be, were I to claim that BE was utter drivel...?

Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 13:03:01 -0400
Subject: Re: This week in pointless trivia.
From: fionashnapple at gmail.com
To: pynchon-l at waste.org


I love BE.  It's soooo, like Absolutely, not Positively  4th Street.  What a drag it is getting old, but mostly, you know, well you don't,  but if you could, you'd know what a drag it is to see me. 
 Keep on Truckin, Tom.  This ain't no Kansas no more, but I got a feeling I been here before..won't you let me help you Your Gold Teeth, One and Two, are making them shutter  		 	   		  

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