International Book Week

[jochen stremmel]

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.


'As the term informs us, these hawks were not "cast off," they were "lett fli."'



2013/9/20 Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>>>> > >>>
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >
>>>> >
>>>
>>>