Jeremiah’s Comments (group member since Oct 28, 2024)

Jeremiah’s comments from the Thomas Pynchon group.

What are people's opinions on the film? It's been a full decade since its release. I personally think it struggles with tone in the first third, but then comes into its own later on. I think Joaquin Phoenix makes a good Doc Sportello.

Phillip wrote: "the second half really does begin to gather narrative steam - as you say, it builds so well on the first half.

on a somewhat unrelated note, i have been writing a suite of music for saxophone tri..."

I have a bachelor's degree in mathematics and I couldn't necessarily parse all of the math stuff in AtD, though that's probably due to the length of time I spent since my college years, all during which I haven't really used math... At any rate I find AtD to be an almost endless well of riches of all sorts, not just mathematical.