Friday...

[Mark Kohut]

I don't know what to tell YOU but I will use
the Reply to report about my recent
reading problem. Inability to read many acclaimed ones.

But last night I found one to read during the snowstorm. A book with
a tricky, playful self-aware opening, part of which actually
reminds me of *the ending *of Lot 49 and Pynchon in general...(I know, I
know that I am
making too much associative use of that ending, but hey association
is one thing you can absorb from Pynchon and misapply like anything else---
---"A piece of advice I made up myself"--SL intro...)

In this way. An early seemingly irrelevant conversation is by a woman named
Ish,
--not my shout-out Ish but Murray's --about whether she should get a bidet
in her new place
( I mean didn't Pynchon bring toilets into fiction?  Or was that Bloom
on one in Ulysses?)
and a writer kinda stalking our protagonist then sitting down with him
about how he was hunting his next book and decided
to get this guy's life on the page...just his daily life.....
He says: everyone's hunting for some
kind of transformation in fiction that they think is in life so I don't
want any such
revelations......nice marker, nice new return to the real gambit.

The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...no school! Yay!...and what shall I read?
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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