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Pynchon: He Who Lives By the List, Dies by It

Submitted by Raymond Tiglao Galang, Dec 30, 2007 01:36

I read some passages from "Gravity's Rainbow" in 2002-2003. I couldn't get through all of it.
So I'm going to read through it again.

I just started picking apart James Blish's "Cities in Flight". Pynchon and Blish could be literary co-conspirators.


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I read some passages from "Gravity's Rainbow" in 2002-2003. I couldn't get through all of it.
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Raymond Tiglao Galang 

Dec 30, 2007 01:36

I picked up "Gravity's Rainbow" in 2002 or 2003 after years of having ignored an attempt to read it.
I... [MORE]

Raymond 

Dec 30, 2007 01:29

"The silliness of 'Against the Day' about the very subjects where we are most urgently in quest of wisdom proves... [MORE]

Steven Augustine 

Nov 26, 2006 16:27

Not having yet seen or read Mr. Pynchon's new novel, I read Mr. Kirsch's review of Against the Day with... [MORE]

jack roberts 

Nov 16, 2006 07:54

The Thomas Pynchon of "Against the Day," in fact, is precicely the Thomas Pynchon we need. Yet he is a... [MORE]

alec michod 

Nov 15, 2006 12:54

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