Must just repost and shout Yes and Yes again this Easter Sunday

[Mark Kohut]

One meaning Whitehead seemed to hear is that Against the Day, his longest,
came so soon after Mason & Dixon, which took so long from GR (Vineland
adjudged another shorter less-allusive quickie [joke] like Lot
49.....because he had the internet.

Another, it seems, is that the later ones are now much easier to read (than
GR) because Google.

I did see another mention or two of aspects like the above but all
impressionistic small samples....




On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > many seem to think his later books and their allusions are because
> Google.
>
> I'm not sure how to read this:
>
>  - that people think the density or domain or form or ??? of P's allusion
> changes in the later books, and that's because of Internet research
> capabilities?
>
> or
>
> - that they don't know how allusive P has been all along -- and coming
> late to the party, tag him as a "Google-ish writer" because they don't
> appreciate what could be done with cellulose technology?
>
> or something else?
>
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