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I am sitting here at my computer with a copy of The Crying of Lot 49 next to me, about to reread it for a fourth time. I type "ILX" in the address bar and press Down, but just as I'm pressing Enter, my hand bumps my mouse and moves the cursor so that it highlights one of the other autocomplete suggestions... which just so happens to be this thread.
It weirds me out a little.
― I'm the head soul brother in the US. Where to now? (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
esp since this thread hasn't been active in two years!
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
what is Down?
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
the inner layer of insulating feathers on waterfowl. Also, one of the four direction buttons just to the right of your enter key.
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
No-one's mentione 'Against the Day' yet.
am currently stuck in it's grasp.
― Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
― the pinefox, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:04 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark
stfu
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
> No-one's mentione 'Against the Day' yet.
Do you realize that this is the first time I will be able to anticpate NEW PYNCHON
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Nearly finished my first read of this, and I find it weirdly moving on a personal level - even having been born in 1977 - I'm reminded somehow of lots of people I knew earlier in life. (The DL/Frensi parts and Che/Prairie parts have a particular resonance with two friends whose lives have drifted/diverged from my own, and the friendships seem to mirror one another in a way.) Surprised at how, well, easily digestible this has been in comparison to Lot 49.
what do others think?
― I'M IN MIAMI, TRICK-OR-TREAT (Beatrix Kiddo), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
oops. didn't mean to post that, started a vineland thread.
― I'M IN MIAMI, TRICK-OR-TREAT (Beatrix Kiddo), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
lake traverse and deuce kincaid, wow
― kamerad, Sunday, 4 October 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i meant kindred. and sloat fresno. and against the day going all annie proulx meets cormac mccarthy. fuck
― kamerad, Sunday, 4 October 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
must admit i'm not enjoying "inherent vice" all that much. in fact, haven't picked it up for about two weeks.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 5 October 2009 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Dude. I think it only took me a couple of days all told, I loved it.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 October 2009 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe i'll give it another shot tonight.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 5 October 2009 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
a black rush of hair streaming unruly as the smoke that marbles the flames of Perdition
― kamerad, Monday, 5 October 2009 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
liked INHERENT VICE, took finishing as an opportunity to pick up VINELAND finally, and i love it so far!
― 69, Monday, 5 October 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
missed this bit of news late last year
http://www.filmjunk.com/2010/12/02/p-t-anderson-to-direct-inherent-vice-starring-robert-downey-jr/
― andrew m., Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe i'm nuts but what's up in wisco reminds me of against the dayhttp://www.slate.com/id/2286169/pagenum/all/#p2or at least the simpsons, the koch bros scarsdale vibe's grandsons if not mr. burnses
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 24 February 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I just bought Against the Day the other night, looking forward to digging in.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 February 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
took me a while to get into. the deuce sloat lake fiasco hooked me
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 24 February 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
ATD is one of the greatest books i've ever read... and i've still got 300 pages to go
― cutty, Thursday, 24 February 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
it picks up around then, believe it or not. cyprian turns out to be one of my favorite pynchon characters
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 24 February 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish PT anderson was doing a six hour film of ATD instead
― cutty, Friday, 25 February 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
it's so fucking cinematic
― cutty, Friday, 25 February 2011 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
ATD is one of the greatest books i've ever read...
i might go as far as saying it's my favorite tp by a long shot.
Robert Downey Jr. as lead in Inherent Vice is kind of perfect.
― they call him (remy bean), Friday, 25 February 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
robert downey jr gains 40 pounds and plays slothrop, please
― cutty, Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:29 AM (2 years ago)
― cutty, Friday, 25 February 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Pynchon loves him some pigs:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01538e4fe38c970b-600wi
"I was planning to skydive into the middle of these proceedings," joked Pynchon, who didn't even attend the National Book Awards when "Gravity's Rainbow" won in 1974. "Thank you for your teaching," he continued. "Good work and good vibes to everybody there."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 May 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Almost finished with V right now, and I'm enjoying it very much.
Did anyone else get this? I'm on the last 100 pages, and it seems like Pynchon is giving us the code to crack open the novel with. As in, now the past 400 pages are starting to make sense - Benny is like a fetish, an inanimate object, explains what SHROUD was saying, slaves, dance of death, all that good stuff. If that's the case, I wonder if it's reflected in Mondaugen's story where the German officer breaks Mondaugen's code and it reveals, from what I understand, a quote from Wittgenstein. I'm definitely interested in checking out what it means to see if/how it reflects on the novel's theme (if anyone else has done this, I'd love to hear about it).
Regardless, he's a great writer. Can't wait to read his other novels.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link