Curiosity during the reading of AtD.

[David Morris]

It was Laurie Anderson's song "Gravity's Angel" that got me to read GR, my
first Pynchon read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1v5UdYpStw

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 2:58 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Probably true but a fine woman, sadly departed, introduced me to the joys
> of Pynchon.
>
> rich
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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