M&D preambulatory profferings

[Becky Lindroos]

 I guess I fit in your category of folks who enjoy M&D more than GR and I’ve been here awhile.  First - AtD is my fav all-time,  but M&D is most certainly next.  For me, liking M&D so well is about the history, the language,  the humor, the magic and the diabolical Jesuitical undermining of linear reality.  

That’s it. 
Bek

> On Jan 4, 2015, at 4:38 AM, 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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