Requiestat in pace, Harold Bloom

[Mark Thibodeau]

A 400 page book... in an HOUR?

I used to pride myself on being able to read fast. That was when I was
in high school. Then, in university, I realized I wasn't actually
"reading" so much as skimming. And that I was missing a LOT by doing
so.

I could still probably read 400 pages of, say, a Stephen King novel in
one evening, and get the basic gist. But when it comes to reading
Pynchon, I'd say that after roughly 20 pages, I'm already whatever the
literary equivalent of stumbling drunk might be, and reading any more
would be pointless. I have to let what I've read already digest
overnight, or for a few hours at least, before even attempting to
continue.

J.

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 1:19 AM peterthooper at juno.com
<peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> NYT obit said he could read 400 page book in an hour. Dang!
>
> Doesn’t he get some kind of ethnic points for being Jewish?
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: "Erik T. Burns" <eburns at gmail.com>
> To: Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: Requiestat in pace, Harold Bloom
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:34:58 +0100
>
> Dead White Male
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 11:26 AM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Oh, nooo...
> >
> > He was a great man of letters, there can be no denying that.
> >
> > And better yet, he was on our side.
> >
> > Fair winds and following seas, Mr Bloom.
> >
> > Jerky LeBoeuf Esq.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 4:08 PM Heikki R
> > <situations.journeys.comedy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > "I don't know what I would choose if I had to select a single work of
> > > sublime fiction from the last century... it would probably be _Mason &
> > > Dixon_, if it were a full-scale book, or if it were a short novel it
> > would
> > > probably be _The Crying Of Lot 49_. Pynchon has the same relation to
> > > fiction, I think, that my friend John Ashbery has to poetry: he is beyond
> > > compare." Harold Bloom in 2009
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