Curiosity during the reading of AtD.

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, basically. Why? I ask ---in the spirit Mike Jing does re a phrase.


On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 3:42 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Following my third read of BE with Against The Day.  Because I've been
> paring my library throughout BE, I wrestled with whether to keep it or give
> it away.  Inherent Vice went.  Ultimately Maxine stayed.
>
> Against The Day, there's no debate.  I'm loving the legs off it.  But I'm
> waiting to get to where women have a fair (i.e. less gendered) stake in the
> story.  Something not predicated on boy eyeballs girl.  Might be a minute.
> Only just getting past T.W.I.T.
>
> Anyroad.  Point being, I wonder how many women have the time of day for
> Pynchon.  Has anyone polled this?  Or is it generally assumed that he's kind
> of the lit equivalent of Captain Beefheart, predominantly of interest to
> boys who delight in cacophony?
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