International Book Week

[Ian Livingston]

Dang, missed by one book in the stack I'm currently reading: "Yet he was not."

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Ian Livingston
<igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>
>>> > >>
>>> > >
>>> >
>>
>>