Status Updates From The Recognitions

hard to put down. i stopped using the amazingly comprehensive Web 1.0 reader's guide pretty early on; so far, the references are clearer and more intriguing than Foucault's Pendulum and the prose is easier and more mellifluous than Mason & Dixon. the hyperbombastic Gass foreword (i am more predisposed to say this having just finished two of the big WHG joints) all but confirms him as a guilt-ridden Gaddis plagiarist.