― tom west (thomp), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― the pinefox (the pinefox), Saturday, 11 November 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link
LA Times review
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― jamesy (SuzyCreemcheese), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― rems (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Sans punctuation, the previous statement can be interpreted in more than one way. I think I interpreted it in a manner different from the original intent. (Kinda a caveman announcing his conquest of a large, war-like woman.)
So why's Amazon decided to bundle Against the Day with Life of Pi, emphasizing that if I purchase both I shall save an additional 5%?
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link
this is gonna be the best thing since "the english assassin"
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 07:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike Lisk (b_buster), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Docpacey (docpacey), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
man FUCK amazon, i ordered new headphones on the weekend and they already showed up in my mailbox today!
― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Any other potential referents for the title?
― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link
AGAIN with the talking dog?
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
faulkner: "We speak now against the day when our Southern people who will resist to the last these inevitable changes in social relations, will, when they have been forced to accept what they at one time might have accepted with dignity and goodwill, will say: 'Why didn't someone tell us this before? Tell us this in time?'"
book of peter: "But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."
tyndale (a 16th cent translator of the bible): "I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me."
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Like you can have too many? Wait til you get to the runcible spoon fight in chapt... oh, but I've said too much already...
― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Ezra Tessler gives a summary:
the most striking example of Koch’s literary inventiveness is ‘The Red Robins’ (1975), the longest piece in the collection and perhaps the most well known of Koch’s relatively unacknowledged fiction. This dizzying 56 chapter, 150 page novel-like epic explodes into free-form prose, poetry, drama, and countless other incarnations of literary expression. Resiliently difficult to summarize, Koch’s hyperkinetic tale loosely follows the adventures of a group of pilots led by a morally ambiguous figure named Santa Claus as they swoop in and around Asia. The Red Robins inhabit—as if at random—jungles, cities, beaches, and clouds, while the story’s fantastical whims burst in and out of narrative, dialogue, list, rhyme, unconnected to specific time or event. There are no ‘characters’ in the traditional sense of robust personage. Instead, the reader meets a barrage of people, things, and places, some of which appear multiple times, most of which only momentarily. Together they get heaped in a spontaneous whirlwind so schizophrenic and bawdy as to rival the likes of Rabelais, Sterne, and Burroughs.
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike Lisk (b_buster), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
(click on 'tuesday' and fast fwd to 35 mins and available for a week)
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link
"squints from needlework carried past the borderlands of sleep in clockless bad light, women in headscarves, crocheted fascinators, extravagantly flowered hats, no hats at all, women just looking to put their feet up after too many hours of lifting, fetching, walking the jobless avenues, bearing the insults of the day..."
I also enjoyed Frankie Ferdinand saying " 'st los Hund?".
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_, Thursday, 15 March 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stevie T, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Friday, 16 March 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― s.clover, Saturday, 17 March 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― s.clover, Sunday, 18 March 2007 06:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― s.clover, Sunday, 18 March 2007 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Maxine Tarnow in Bleeding Edge is possibly TRP compensating for the underwritten aspects of Oedipa - she's a much more fully drawn mum-gumshoe. Though funnily enough Mike Davis thought this was a virtue of CoL49 in comparison to Didion - he praised the novel for "wasting no time grappling with the alienation of its subject".
― Piedie Gimbel, Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
That sounds a good comment from Davis (whom I've almost never read).
I agree that Bleeding Edge comes over like a return to CL49 territory (I suspect that INHERENT VICE did too), though I also thought it was dire.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 30 October 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
On the 50th anniversary of Gravity’s Rainbow’s publication, it’s worth remembering that Laurie Anderson once asked Thomas Pynchon if she could stage it as an opera. His answer? Yes, as long as the whole thing was scored solely for banjo pic.twitter.com/jh0REahy0O— David Hering (@hering_david) February 28, 2023
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 10:26 (one year ago) link
Paging Bela Fleck…
― o. nate, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
Lol
― Wile E. Galore (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
Part of the attraction to Wendell "Mucho" Maas ("Mucho baby," as she addresses him at one point, indicating that he may well have mucho sex appeal)
"Mucho" means "Lot." Oedipa is Lot's wife.
― alimosina, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link