International Book Week

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Antonin Scriabin wrote:

> Pynchon must have anticipated this, and not wanted any spoilers getting out
> via the page 52 rule.  Gracious of him.

And he clearly had BE in mind when working on V....Page 52, 5th sentence:
"New York must have been for her a city of smoke, its streets the
courtyards of limbo, its bodies like wraiths."

[I won't get BE in my hands until Monday, a local bookstore let me down.
Meanwhile, am halfway through a reread of The Public Burning and liking
it immensely, quite a bit more than I did in early 90s. To begin with, I
feel now so much more sensitive to different registers in Coover's novel.]


> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> >
> > Really would like to join this, but the closest book to me is 'Bleeding
> > Edge' (Jonathan Cape edition), and on page 52 there simply is no 5th
> > sentence! An anti-Pynchon conspiracy?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 20.09.2013 15:11, Keith Davis wrote:
> >
> >> It's International Book Week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you,
> >> turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence. Don't mention the title. Copy
> >> the rules as part of your post.
> >>
> >> "The ancient child asks
> >> How should you see"
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:00 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>  It's International Book Week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you,
> >>> turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence. Don't mention the title. Copy
> >>> the rules as part of your post.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>