bucy wrote:

]
] Pynchon is brilliant. I'm also working on Gravity's
] Rainbow which is a lot less accessible. I enjoyed
] Vineland. I often found myself laughing out loud at
] some of the incredibly perverse notions he drops along the
] way. I didn't read too deeply into it but wouldn't be
] suprised if the whole thing was a fable about hippy-ism, etc,
] between the 60s and the 80s...
]

I've read GR half a dozen times over the years. One of my favorite images from Vineland is the one of the parrots who told stories ''of the coming of the white man, of the disappearance of the trees...'' The only Pynchon book which I haven't been able to get through is Mason and Dixon the typography makes it hard to read, I think, but I know that eventually I'll try again.

RE: Reading -- February 2003