NP: Rilke's LtaYP

[Jochen Stremmel]

I'll suggest nothing of the kind but give you a quote regarding the context
that some might enjoy: “To want to meet an author because you like his
books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate
de foie gras.”
I did.

2016-09-16 15:45 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> I suggest all of the solitude in the letters might also apply to the
> unpublic Pynchon we know and love.
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Plus I say all Rilke's talk about solitude in the letters counts as
>> companion material to GR's personal density//temporal bandwidth.
>>
>> > On Sep 16, 2016, at 7:22 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hey Pynchon dudes,
>> >
>> > Yesterday had enough time to read Rilke's *Letters to a Young Poet* as
>> I was selling off about 2/3 of the books I've accumulated over the last
>> decade or so, waiting for the dude to add up the store's offer.
>> >
>> > I'm guessing many of you have read this. If you haven't, I couldn't
>> recommend it more. And if you have, but a while ago, I remind you how short
>> it is, how easy to revisit.
>> >
>> -
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>>
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