International Book Week

[Antonin Scriabin]

> 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."

Now this is just freaking me out.


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Heikki Raudaskoski
<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>wrote:

>
>
> 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.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >
>
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