Somehow this Barth essay had escaped my notice until now: "Incremental Perturbation: How to Know Whether You've Got a Plot or Not" -- collected in 'Creating
Pynchon's new novel, in my opinion is fantastic and I believe there is definitely a lot more underneath the surface that constitutes a second read or more.Â
So about an hour after I sent my message on Friday, my wife said to me -- sua sponte -- "after dinner, let's go to the bookstore." So what we did, and I picked
And but also -- incidentally, and not that it rilly matters -- there is no comma after 'Giles' in the book's title, although there is one in the text when