STaGgeR tentative opener

[Mark Kohut]

Michael---

Thanks....I think a glossy jacket on BE invokes NYC's Silicon Alley, glossy
is tech.
This matte cover invokes shadows, imo...

And I have sent around lots of resonances of 'shadow" to me most lumped
under
secret, hidden.....from the secret history in V...to L49's secrets,
Trystero and more
to common facts such as a "shadow government' and fascism's shadows to the
present...

On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 1:52 AM Michael Bailey via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

>
> _Shadow Ticket_  (awesome) Groupish (guileless everyday) Read
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> Inspired by memories of particular times walking while feeling really,
> really good, for various reasons…and not always taking the most direct line
> between any two points (for varying reasons)
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> I like the author, I like the book, I’m’a post everyday starting at the
> beginning and stopping after the end
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> If anyones else want to get more organized than that I’ll gladly fold my
> contributions into whatever format is settled upon
>
> Will probably reply to any responses (appreciate courtesy of course), but
> no guarantee except that any replies will be courteous by my fairly
> conventional lights.
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> Shadow Ticket - various meanings, but I sort of like the idea that it’s a
> ticket ie work order, for this private dick McTaggart, to shadow somebody.
>
> There’s not necessarily any textual evidence for that
>
> (Textual evidence? We don’t need no stinking textual evidence!) (jk,
> mostly)
>
> The book itself, the, um, jacket, reminds me of the BE jacket except it’s,
> like, not glossy, but matte. I like the look of both glossy and matte,
> though I prefer the *feel* of matte. I think that’s the right word but I’m
> too lazy to check right now.
>
> It’s a particular citynightscape.
>
> Having read through, must say it’s kind of a dark book,
> subject-matter-wise, but maybe dark like a citynightscape, ie there are
> bright spots.
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>
> More tomorrow, probably
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