NP.

[David Morris]

I just purchased BOJ.  So we shall see…

David Morris

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 6:11 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since most won't care, and they have no need to, this is an indulgence.
> But *The Books of Jacob* is quite difficult to read; OR, is quite difficult
> for me to read.
>
> I will allude to Pynchon only in two ways. It does remind me of the first
> time I
> read, tried to read,* Gravity's Rainbow*. Because of all the characters
> introduced,
> discrete scenes and themes started. Except for a few musings and riffs that
> I will
> call metaphysical, overtly theological [ very Judaic--and very beyond, I
> think--, in which I am weak] or otherwise transcendent of a nitty-gritty
> world
> of the past, mid 1700s Poland, and, o yes, its ambition, it isn't much like
> GR at all. That I can tell. (Why even did I say this?; no one said it was.)
> And those
> musings within remind more of the metaphoric associative leaps of *Against
> the Day* than GR. Those musings
> and some other things are marvelous though, but like raisins in a harsh
> oatmeal so far, to use a lame cliche.
>
> Thanks for reading my reading diary entry for the day.
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