AtD Wiki

[Mark Kohut]

No time for a longer post--I've bloviated in the archives on it---but the ATD wiki is the perfect online symbolic reenactment of the ideal of sharing t-shirts from a pile --so offhandedly but brilliantly used by TRP as wholesome anarchy in a too-possessive world.

I LOVE every twist and turn and stupidity ( including all my own) and speculation and insight in it. 
That's reading in a democratic way....as we know ANYONE can " improve" it if they think they can and the more the more Pynchonian.

I could end with an aggressive aphorism about that wiki but.....

Sent from my iPad

> On Apr 28, 2017, at 1:00 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry to e symbolic form of  at y'all but I'm reading AtD at the moment, along with the annotations on the AtD wiki...
> 
> About 50% of the material really shouldn't be there. Somehow it's largely a forum to masturbatorily (yet anonymously, which seems contradictory somehow) 1) demonstrate close reading that's shallow or reckless or both, or 2) wax rhapsodic and editorial about how much the annotater likes the novel/ist (e.g. 'This 'Skip' episode is not to be skipped or skimmed; it sets ATD's readers briefly aglow with sweetness and light — and sadness.)
> 
> And an uncomfortable percentage of the more informative annotations are also largely a waste of time to read.
> 
> Anybody else find this? I used the annotations for GR, M&D, IV, BE...seem to remember them mostly being much better than this.
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