Nudge, nudge, gentle readers, just to be clear.

[Drake Smith]

Amateur that I am when it comes to 18th C grammar, with an inability to
comprehend whence Mr. Pynchon's M&D grammatical structure is modeled after,
does anyone have insight as to what novels/texts that were likely to
influence him for this grand work?

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> She, Montaigne as a model, is a participant in the lifetime of philosophy
> and literary reading and biographical understanding.
> The arc of the book moves through all the ideas to......ultimately, a
> paean to seeing......fresh, new and clearly ...like an artist
> or the best journalist.....
> and what won me fully over was when she said that, when young it was the
> ideas, now, older it is the wonderful human comedy (my paraphrase)
> of them all that keeps her reading...
>
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes -  I read At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell and I liked it
>> so much I almost got my hair cut like the author’s (only a friend dissuaded
>> me).    I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in 20th century
>> European philosophers of the existentialist variety.  She gets it right.
>>
>>
>> Becky
>> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
>>
>> > On Oct 17, 2017, at 2:37 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > MK: I'm not starting the [M & D] Read.
>> >
>> > MK: I like it so I hope if we do almost everyone jumps into the dance.
>> > I  will.
>> >
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------
>> ------------------------------------
>> > Meanwhile, I want to highly recommend a book in which Melanie Jackson
>> > appears on the last acknowledgments page. With therefore hints that
>> > maybe her shadow reader husband was involved in parts? *
>> >
>> > That book is AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFE by Sarah Bakewell.
>> > "No ideas but in people", one might adapt WCWilliams' remark to
>> describe this book.
>> >
>> > Wherein one of the interesting, but minor things I learned, was that
>> the CIA
>> > got the dying Franz Fanon out of Algeria to a hospital in Bethesda MD,
>> where
>> > he did die. at 38.
>> >
>> >
>> > * In which I also learned that Heidegger had a "They/Them" as
>> controllers of us all in some of his writing,
>> > I think in the later work, The Question of Technology. In which I
>> learned that a writer on human beings and computers named
>> > Dreyfus evidently wrote a very good book in 2001 on why "the Internet
>> is THE technological innovation that
>> > most clearly reveals what technology is". Which makes a reader of
>> BLEEDING EDGE want to read it.
>> >
>> > PS I think this guy is Herbert Dreyfus, I'm not looking anything up,
>> who I remember reading much earlier than 2001; a book about computers and
>> beings
>> > in which I think he predicted that a machine could not beat the best
>> chess players which gave me hope until they did. (But
>> > I may have a self-created memory of Herb)
>>
>>
>
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