Katje's peer

[Keith Davis]

I would just add that it's true that reading Pynchon can present some
difficulties in the beginning. Hence the careful reading and re-reading. At
first, and I am no expert, I always suggest just plunging in. Of course,
lots of details and allusions will be missed, but, the details are
important, and the more they're understood, on careful reading, the more
appreciation (again, only my opinion) for the work will grow,

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you!
>
> Ok, here's another answer. Most, possibly all, of the people who come
> here, and have been here for a while, are here because we're big fans of
> Pynchon's work. That means we've all put a lot of time into reading and
> re-reading and discussing his work. Plenty of people here are ready at any
> time to jump into discussions of meaning and interpretation, e.g. all of
> the supportive response to Mike Jing's translation efforts.
> Serious questions always, or usually, anyway, receive serious responses.
> On the other hand, questions that have to do with details that can, and
> only in my humble opinion, should, be discovered by a serious reading of
> the text, are likely to be met with silly answers, or, as would have been
> better in the present case, on my part, no answer.
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Are you trying to sound silly?  If so, good job!
>> David Morris
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 3, 2017, Bruno Nogueira <bruno.laze at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It is very pleasing to fill gaps in memory with imagination!
>>> But you are right, Keith. I have lots of reading to do, as always. Don't
>>> we all?
>>> Even so, someone said that GR should be read the way we listen to jazz.
>>> Maybe words (/the music sheet) aren't that important as the soul and
>>> abstract meaning (/the phenomenology of music). Our abstract concept of
>>> Katje may be more important than the referential details. How do you feel
>>> about her? I suspect that, regarding GR, if we don't listen to what we
>>> feel, the whole novel implodes (like jazz!): nothing narrated is
>>> trustworthy, is it? Like the old hippie said: "I don't have words. I have a
>>> soul."
>>>
>>> Katje is a spy? She works for whom? Us or Them?...
>>>
>>> 2017-01-03 11:21 GMT-06:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Yeah,  I don't remember things the way Bruno tells them...
>>>>
>>>> David Morris
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You have some reading to do.
>>>>>
>>>>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 3, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Bruno Nogueira <bruno.laze at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Except that Katjer worked for the Germans, didn't she? My memory fails
>>>>> me---I remember one of her first episodes depicting a threesome with
>>>>> Blicero and Enzian, at the V2 shack, where they all lived like rats. She
>>>>> was then sent by Bliss to London, to spy on the White Visitation.
>>>>> Btw, what is the relation between Pirate Prentice, Katje, and Slothrop?
>>>>>
>>>>> Happy new year to you all!
>>>>> Bruno
>>>>>
>>>>> 2017-01-02 16:53 GMT-06:00 Bob Berg <robertberg5125 at comcast.net>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/teenager-nazi-armed-resis
>>>>>> tance-netherlands-876?utm_source=dmfb
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
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