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Maybe the most ambitious book I’ve ever read.

We can do whatever we want. Are we not the world to come?

A philosophical novel, though I’m pressed to explain what that philosophy might be.

Hicks mctaggart.

The thought crossed Hicks’ mind - stopped, turns around and actually winked - that….

Finally gets pynchony around page 40.

2 beyond familiarity or indifference, some deep mischief is at work.

393. There are so many ways of taking vengeance one the world. Sometimes literature is simply not enough.

266. There is no such thing as a life that does not return.

Trolsche.
Fackleman
John NR Wayne
Not just Hal and Oren and JOI and Mrs I and Don Gately
Pemulis (I’d read a novel just about this guy.

243. What I recognize in Pym is what I recognize in myself: a spirit so wayward that, even while I am playing a game of scrabble with my kids it can swing between the options of suicide, rape and assassination. “He’s one of us for Christ’s sake!”

278. The moisture in her eyes was shining like steel, not dew, and nothing about her trembled.

170. …”And as he shouted he felt the last bits of worry go out of his chest, and his shoulders settle on his back, and he knew that with a wind like this he could tell anything he wanted to anybody.”

Lots of fun so far. Easy breezy reading compared to other Pynchon books. Loved running into the old Traverse clan that will descend into Vineland.

60 pages in. As a fan of fiction and 19th century physics, I’m loving it.

Nice flow but doesn’t seem to going anywhere.

Rereading this after a first read in grad school. This time a slow read at about 2-5 pages a day. It pays to read Faulkner slowly of course, but I’m not as blown away as I was the first time. So maybe there is something to doing hours at a time and turning the pages quickly to get done in time for class.

Rereading this after a first read in grad school. This time a slow read at about 2-5 pages a day. It pays to read Faulkner slowly of course, but I’m not as blown away as I was the first time. So maybe there is something to doing hours at a time and turning the pages quickly to get done in time for class.

It ain’t Faulkner.