OMG! Ya Know?

[Michael Bailey]

I like Dave's approach.
On Oct 15, 2013 1:58 PM, "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

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