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

[Mark Kohut]

The presumption was he was/is very allusive which took him a long time and
we had a hard time
reading him because we couldn't take the time because busy lives.

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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