Against the Day Prereqs

[matthew cissell]

Hi Smoke,

   If you don't mind a bit of intellectual history for backdrop I'd
recommend The Crisis of Reason: European Thought 1848-1914 by J.W. Burrow
and also The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes.

  But that's just my two bits on one of the many angles to read from. A
P-lister by the name of Alice would tell us to check out the subject of
labor.

  I really enjoy how AtD links back up to so many Pynchonian themes or
events. After all it takes us back to V. but at the same time points
forward to his two later novels. I mean don't you think that Lew is a bit
like the keystone in an arch that connects both coasts and characters.
Early questers (e.g. pseudo-detective Oedipa on West Coast)  linked with
later genre gumshoe questers (Doc or Maxine)?

its late, gotta sleep.
ciao
mc

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> I solicited some opinions on what I might read before this most recent
> reread of Gravity's Rainbow. All your help made it the best read yet.
>
> Anything anyone would recommend before taking another crack at AtD? -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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