BE/White Noise

[Rich Clavey]

Y-yeah. I thing the engagement of the surface, the depths, just about anything, is a problem, not with GR per se, but with the people who attempt to read it. Problem, in the sense that it is not an easy read.
Rich


 
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 From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> 
Cc: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>; "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: BE/White Noise
 

I believe it was for several, what, millions who helped give it a
reputation as an impossible-to-finish book.

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:05 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Non engagement of surface was never a problem with GR.
>
>
> On Thursday, October 10, 2013, Robin Landseadel wrote:
>>
>> The realization that there's so much beneath the "Surface" of this Novel,
>> knowing that this one requires re-reading more than the others, particularly
>> after starting up my reading for a second time. Because the tone is so glib
>> and the end scenes of the novel so "normalized" it's easy to race by details
>> here—I have so many "If only she'd looked" moments while reading this.
>>
>> And you must know by now that CoL49 is my idee fixe.
>>
>> On Oct 10, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Rich wrote:
>>
>>> Much appreciated Robin but why does your view of things sound so much
>>> better than the experience of actually reading the book?
>>>
>>> rich
>>
>>
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