New pad?

[Joseph Tracy]

Still up for that CoL 49 revisit myself despite Pynchon’s reservation on this most well known of his novels, though that may be changing with the movies coming out. I enjoy looking in on the Moby Dick and to a lesser degree the SL discussions, but am very busy trying to redo my website and learn more about web code. I ‘ve gotten pretty good at 25 year old code conventions( most are still around and do work in their own way). Have not plunged into the streamlined modern web code but it may be inevitable if I want a space in that world.

I may be wrong about CoL49 as the most read Pynchon. Perhaps outside of academia there is a growing readership for the novels becoming movies. Will PT Anderson do Bleeding Edge next after Vineland? The genius of TP is clearly hard for him to resist, and he likes the comic strain of these later works. Will people read Vineland ahead of the movie? 
Any information on that stuff , Mark, anyone?

As to more cheerful conclusions, I am beginning to wonder if God or humanity or coyote doing standup in the 7th dimension  is really into the darkest of dark comedy: Dr. Strangelove,  Gravity’s Rainbow, Vonnegut at his darkest, The final triumph of Captain Hook. But if the idea is to die laughing, who is doing the laughing?






> On Mar 10, 2024, at 4:06 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I would do a CoL49 group reread. I will be presenting a lifelong learning
> lunch lecture locally this fall.
> 
> 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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