in Which CofL49 appears.

[Mark Kohut]

I did not read The Magus when younger, but just in recent years and I thought it a powerful portrait of an intellectual asshole. so to speak. Could not " buy" an ounce of his quest, but I'm sure that was a projective bias. 

Sent from my iPad

> On Mar 20, 2015, at 3:13 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> 
> I remember that I liked "The Magus" well enough but much preferred "The French Lieutenant's Woman."
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 20.03.2015 um 01:50 schrieb Mark Thibodeau:
>> Ooh! ARGs! Such fertile ground for truly evil mischief.
>> 
>> I imagine many here have read Fowles' The Magus? I wonder how highly
>> that brick of a tome is regarded by the Pynchon Listers, generally
>> speaking. Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed about 2/3 of it - found it
>> completely enchanting, even - while finding 1/3 (mostly around the
>> beginning and the end) turgid and plodding and pointless.
>> 
>> MT
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
>> <mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game#Possible_inspirations_from_fiction_and_other_art_forms
>>    -
>>    Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> 
>> 
-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l