New pad?

[David Morris]

I might be interested in a COL49 group read. I think of it as akin to SL,
as a kind of immature venture into “paranoia” as a deeper concept. It’s
prose is starting towards the really flourishing kind we eventually see as
Pynchon’s hallmark, but the paranoia issues are still mostly cliche

On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 12:14 AM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’m inclined to veer off into a hiatus on SLPAD - not that “Entropy” is too
> dark, I think it might even be interpretable as kind of funny with an
> affirmation of sorts hidden amongst the dark despair (ie, I haven’t
> relinquished my ur-position on depressing fiction which is, “hey, you’re
> making it up, how hard would it be to give us a happy ending, eh?” - but
> I’m learning to find something to like about less-than-cheery stories
> anyway)
>
> Last night I unearthed a post from way back, wherein JT expressed an
> interest in an expedition up the slopes of CoL48 & this spring might be a
> fun time for some of that.
>
> If anyone is interested in a group read we could do a linear,
> chunk-assigning type of one.
>
> Or some variation on that.
>
> Or a shaggy-dog kind of approach just beaming out of the lease-breaking
> party and into Oedipa’s kitchen (which I will probably start Monday if
> nobody latches onto a group action by then)(but could happily transition to
> something more organized at any point)
>
>
> Cheers and may spring fever be a pleasant experience for us folks this
> year: 40 zillion plants can’t be wrong!
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>