New pad?

[Mark Kohut]

One way I see it is as a powerful so-original
"short-story-marketed-as-a-novel"
work about Democracy (in America) and its choices...


On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 5:35 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
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