M&D preambulatory profferings

[M Thomas Stevenson]

Had two long bus trips today, so made the three sections already. Lots of notes made, can't wait to discuss. Guess I'll reread em over. 

On 4 January 2015, at 12:39, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

I have indicated that I was with you in emotional/intellectual response to it.

It was, yes, the hardest for me to read, beyond working hard at the
time reasons.
Easier when I wasn't but still...all those Caps, all the digression,
all the jokes that often
need annotative knowledge to even get. (GR, of course, needed
annotative knowledge
but if one simply plowed thru on first reading one could get the
coherent--Bomb coming in---
essence and more.

More often I read, the more I respect/love it. LOL often.

On the question of coherence coming up.




On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 5:49 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd love to hear some words from those who already hold this book
> close to their hearts. There are a lot of veteran P-listers who put
> the novel near (even higher than!) Gravity's Rainbow in that friendly
> fascist framework we call Favourites.
>
> Me, I've never dig-dug the book the way I dig-do V. or GR or VL or BE
> but I've always put that down to personal experience or font-size or
> perhaps cultural materialism.
>
> But mostly I've put it down to the fact that I've never been to the US
> (outside of a TV or cinema screen). I have no deep, internalised,
> situated knowledge of America and the shouted and whispered
> conversation it has been having with its divided selves for so many
> centuries. Some other non-US readers here have professed their
> appreciation of the book so I'm not claiming this is an American-only
> novel.
>
> STILL: I would really love to hear people throw out a few lines
> describing what this Pynchon novel is. I want to hear love songs to
> the thing, though I feel my ear is tinny and poorly tuned. Ring true!
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