OMG! Ya Know?

[Dave Monroe]

On 10/14/13, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am now having a hard time getting through BE.  Why would I want to come
> back to it?

Me, I've never much seen the point about bickering over whether or not
a given book is "good" or "bad"--or "better" or "worse" than any
other--here, @ least (esp.) when it comes to Pynchon's books.  We're
gonna read 'em no matter what.  After that, @ least so far as I';m
concerned, it's a matter of asking (I was gonna say, figuring out, but
...), why did he write this?  @ every given turn.

While I've long defended/enjoyed/participated in the list as, in
essence, social network, chit-chatty, off(whatever that might mean
here ...)topic, polemic, political (if not always politic), poetic,
even, on occasion, I THINK it's also obvious that I've seen it in the
long run as a scholarly venture, a sort of e-midrash, even, where
asking is more the point than answering, and answering more the point
than answers (insofar as they are even possible, w/ either The Word o
God or the words of Pynchon).

Remember how y'all felt after (in particular/off the top of my head)
Vineland?  "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" (J, Lydon)

It may have taken a while (not to mention a bit of reserach [not to
mention a bit of (re)reading]), but I THINK Pynchondom has by + large
come to terms w/ VL, to appreciate it, even.  Ditto ATD, w. IV rising
(M&D having had, against all odds [?], a much better time of things
from the outset).

Me, while even I would like to have waited a little longer to go @ BE
page-by-page, word-by-word, + taken rather longer to do it, I'd @
least like to have as many readers as possible to help me along (we of
course all being the best of all possible readers).

I respectfully request that those bailing reconsider their retreat.
Y'all don't have to read everything posted (I know I don't, I simply
don't have time, but teh P-List posts area a rel;ative blip in my
inbox, so ...), much less respond, nor of coursehas anu=yone ever been
limited to the text, much less topic, @ hand.

Me, up to AtD, I always set up a new e-mail address for each group
read (hence my current e-mail address).  Since then, gmail's
for-all-practical-purposes bottomless inbox have spared me from having
to do so for the subsequent novels, + its "stacking" of messages under
any given subject heading greatly streamlines the clutter.

Okay, I gotta get annotatin', so ...
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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l