Thanks Mark! It's not exactly the bit I wanted, but it makes a similar point, so it will do for a reference - I refashioned the footnote slightly. 3 Roads...
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 11, 2006 9:57 pm
I got my copy of 3 Roads as well and read it in two consecutive evenings. Which is not to say that it was a couldn't-put-it-down read, more that I have...
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 11, 2006 10:03 pm
Of course I meant one of the editors in Giles, not narrators. K...
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 11, 2006 10:41 pm
And what's with the color scheme of the last three books? Is it customary for Houghton Mifflin - because CS!!! was also with them, right? - to always do their...
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Barbara
barbstoo
Jun 12, 2006 12:47 am
not tiny, sorry, but... http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-bay611,0,7791579.story? coll=bal-local-headlines...
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agrimorfee
Jun 13, 2006 5:38 pm
... ooohhhh. Fiction becomes reality?...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Jun 13, 2006 5:45 pm
... Well, let hope they don't find him with 40 pounds of scuba weights around his waist and a 9mm bullet hole abaft his left ear......
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Jun 13, 2006 9:52 pm
... You lost me a bit, here. With which book, in your view, did he start doing this? ... Some say that Barth's been doing the same old damn thing since, say, ...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Jun 13, 2006 9:57 pm
... I never noticed that until you mentioned it. Surely it's a coincidence. ... I've been on a nonfiction kick, lately -- Noam Chomsky and Walter Kaufmann....
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 15, 2006 9:34 pm
... I wasn't being very clear back there, I realize; of course I didn't mean he's always done it and that there have always been previous 16 books. :) But...
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 15, 2006 10:30 pm
... Well, perhaps. I'm sure they'd look funny side by side on the shelf, anyway - JB's last three. :) Exploring the HM website just now and their products in...
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 15, 2006 10:32 pm
This place is quiet these days, let's get some discussion going. Any new members? There are 113 all in all, I just looked. Amazing! We've never been this big...
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M. Sedaghat Payam
woolf_543
Jun 16, 2006 7:20 am
Hi Kryzsztof I have not read only few of Barth's books and I am already translating one into Persian. I am really amazed by how different each book of his,...
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 16, 2006 10:21 am
Hi Mehdy! Thanks for responding! ... Always a worthy and important enterprise, translation! I do remember several e-mails from you a while back, but could you...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Jun 16, 2006 3:17 pm
... Speaking of Pynchon, Steven Moore said on the Gaddis list that he got word that a new Pynchon novel from Penguin Press (Viking) will be published in...
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jtl
jorgentlarsen
Jun 16, 2006 3:35 pm
Yowzza! May be the one about some obscure Russian mathematician? Can't wait. ...oh actually I can. I'll be on the beach if anyone calls... Jørgen ... From:...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Jun 16, 2006 3:46 pm
... I haven't heard anything different. From wiki: "It has been rumored that Pynchon's next book will be about the life and loves of Sofia Kovalevskaya, whom...
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 16, 2006 4:02 pm
And I was so hoping I would make my way through Mason & Dixon before he published anything else! Seemed like a good bet, since I reckon it's been almost ten...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Jun 16, 2006 4:11 pm
... Soon or late, all ships arrive at the same dark port. Er, wait. The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made No wait, um . . ....
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jtl
jorgentlarsen
Jun 16, 2006 4:17 pm
Tempus fugit... ... From: "Mark Brawner" <mark.brawner@...> To: <johnbarth@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [johnbarth]...
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Glenn Gamblin
crimhedd
Jun 16, 2006 4:39 pm
Speaking of Pynchon, Steven Moore said on the Gaddis list that he got ... Nothing like an obscure Russian Mathemetician to get the blood pumping, eh? 'Mason &...
3047
agrimorfee
Jun 16, 2006 5:14 pm
... got ... Time to make the Christmas gift list.......
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 16, 2006 5:19 pm
... Of gifts that you don't exactly demand but wouldn't mind getting, huh? ;) K...
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 16, 2006 5:44 pm
... "Three > Roads," was really great And how was the book just before Morrow? :) K...
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Glenn Gamblin
crimhedd
Jun 16, 2006 5:55 pm
I'm sorry to say, I have to agree with the poster who lamented the repetition of previously-explored themes, motifs, and whatnots; this could get tiresome...
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 16, 2006 6:29 pm
... 'Twas I who lamented. :) At the time the word was not much on my mind, but a lament - a jeremiad, even! - it surely was. Glad you're with me on this. ... ...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Jun 16, 2006 10:29 pm
What the hell is this? I don't think I've ever heard of it: http://www.khazaddum.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-1046.html Writing is an action, a different...
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M. Sedaghat Payam
woolf_543
Jun 17, 2006 8:33 am
Hi Krzysztof (Really a difficult name to write and pronounce, by the way I would like to ask the cliche question that you may have answered for 1000th time....
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 17, 2006 10:44 am
... people are confused whether to pronounce Kieslowski's name as Krishtof or Kristof Neither. :) Most people get confused by the 'r' in 'Krz', but in this ...
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Krzysztof Majer
krismajer
Jun 17, 2006 11:17 am
The rumors about a new Pynchon novel got me interested enough to actually re-subscribe to the dreaded Pynchon-L. From what I gathered, a flame war is a-brewing...
