International Book Week

[Ian Livingston]

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

"In other words, the opposition between primitive, or domestic, labor
and proper work has now been displaced in favor of the opposition
between work and the Work: on the one side, a submissive, exploited,
and wholly instrumental labor that always functions merely as a means
to an end; and on the other side, the 'achievements' of civilization
and high culture, which presumably transcend the exploitative
conditions of their creation."

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:55 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> BE doesn't have a 5th sentence on p. 52.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antonin Scriabin
> Sent: Sep 20, 2013 2:53 PM
> To: Heikki Raudaskoski
> Cc: Kai Frederik Lorentzen , Keith Davis , pynchon -l , Dave Monroe
> Subject: Re: International Book Week
>
>> 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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