Re: Speaking of Pynchon… (SLPAD)

[Mark Kohut]

I believe that is part, just part, as it expanded like the origins of the
universe, of Against the Day.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 10:19 PM Dee Kilroy <deadendkid76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> "He once talked about a story built around or containing environmental
> activism as I recall."
>
> Intriguing...  I might could sense the seeds of that in Vineland.  (It's
> very much the right place & time for spiking trees.)  Where'd you chance
> across this?
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 1:38 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
> > He once talked about a story built around or containing environmental
> > activism as I recall. Wonder if he ever started it.
> >
> > > On Feb 17, 2023, at 10:05 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > that's interesting take. I know Gaddis worked on AA for quite a long
> time
> > > and eventually was so influenced by the intense rants of Thomas
> > Bernhardt,
> > > he found his format.
> > > for Pynchon I'd be willing to read even the unfinished or abandoned
> stuff
> > > if there is any, ala Malcolm Lowry's output.
> > >
> > > rich
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 11:14 PM Dee Kilroy <deadendkid76 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Since I view his library as a Chronicle, sorted in order of the era
> the
> > >> volume represents, I figure he's got maybe an Agapē Agape-length
> volume
> > >> left of sentiments to spare for, I dunno, a decade of daunted hopes
> > defined
> > >> by and led by its naughts instead of its Aughts.  I don't imagine
> he'll
> > >> write about Covid.  But he'll probably cuss everything that happened
> up
> > >> until we started mobilizing the refrigerated trucks.
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 4:31 PM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> OK, I don't have my ATD handy, but there's a description of the end
> of
> > a
> > >>> sea journey (maybe when Dally's arriving in Europe?) that talks about
> > the
> > >>> vast horizon of the sea narrowing as the ship heads to port; a
> > narrowing
> > >> of
> > >>> possibilities. Who wouldn't look at aging that way, at times?
> Whatever
> > >> the
> > >>> accomplishments, the joy of the journey, the possibilities are
> > dwindling
> > >>> away to nothingness. Though I still hope he has something more to
> share
> > >>> with us.
> > >>>
> > >>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2023, 4:22 AM Michael Bailey <
> > >> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
> > >>>>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Oh Ghod no - I think he’d be in awe of _Bleeding Edge_, whose edges
> > are
> > >>> so
> > >>>> much less rough than _V._’s
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:32 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com
> >
> > >>>> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> Pynchon turns 86 in May. Would his young writer self, to whom the
> > >> whole
> > >>>>> world was open, new, free of rules or cares, 86 this guy? I think
> he
> > >>> might.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>> --
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> > >>>
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