This week in pointless trivia.

[jochen stremmel]

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg
(D 66)

2013/10/6 Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>:
> 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?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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