Remember when you were young and learned a new word?

[Laura Kelber]

Honestly, I didn't enjoy the book very much. I'm not interested in
re-reading it. But for those who liked the book more than I did, I'm
interested in hearing why.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 7:52 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> And then saw it appear everywhere.......
>
> In my second childhood, that is happening to me (as I've posted before)
> with the word "shadow" because of the great Pynchon's newest.
>
> Here is one of the recent ones:
> Nicolás Maduro has been nominally in charge since 2013, but Venezuela’s
> real power structure has always been less about the presidential office and
> more about the shadow alliances that sustain it.
> "Only the Shadow Knows' as that, what, radio show had it in Pynchon's
> youth.?(I don't remember ever hearing or seeing it but I am old enough to
> remember when this list talked about it. )
>
> Hey, this is still the international PYnchon list, right? And it is a new
> year,correct? And there has been a new Pynchon novel published, yes? And
> this list is where the best Group Reads of
> PYnchon have happenedm yes? (although I see a guy named Severs and others
> are holding Reads in podcasts and on YouTube and maybe FAcebook.....
>
> But, I'm gonna see who's with me...Lotsa newbies and lurkers, right...
>
> So, I want to start a simple (even simple-minded) Group Read. Shadow Ticket
> at only ten pages a week....
>
> The "Rules" are very simple....choose to be a Host if you want----I will
> send around some kind of calendar with pages.....
> but if not, contribute if you want....as close to that wonderful metaphor
> in ATD of picking your own T--shirt out of the pile--closest
> you'll come to (real) anarchy 'round these parts.....a self-organizing
> Read.
>
> I'll try for the first post within a day or so.....it will count for this
> week since it seems best to break into weekend starts because weekends
> are still freer for many than weekdays.....Idea: let's let the weekend days
> be overlapping pages....so someone can get their stuff down if they;ve had
> a busy week and
> the new host---or me---can start the next ten.......
>
> There are no stupid thoughts, but if there are, they don't have to be
> noticed.  All noticings count. All allusions to other P works wanted. Any
> research accepted. All opinions challengeable. All opinions wanted.
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