http://www.emanating.com/wordpress You might remember The Chums Of Chance from their previous adventure "The Battle In Blogland" Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:48:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven’t written in a while so much of this comment pertains to parts of the book that I’m a little past at this point. And perhaps this observation is a little front door, but I can’t help being impressed, touched, and enchanted by a frequent comparison of the warm, ... http://www.emanating.com/wordpress/?p=64 10 reasons to Read Against The Day #1Learn more about science. #2 Get more sex acts between one sets of covers than the last six books you’ve read put together. #3 Learn about Central European political geography at a graduate-course level. #4 Get high from vicarious indulgence in more drugs than you ever ... http://www.emanating.com/wordpress/?p=63 I am back in. looks like the other posters here have been on break as well. I haven’t really been compelled to write, as i have not really had any open questions or unique experiences over the last 100 pages or so. I find i am inspired to post ... http://www.emanating.com/wordpress/?p=62 One of the most exceeding rare postures in the surcaresque, hypermorphic fictions of Pynchon is the classic formal device of addressing the reader directly. Admittedly, this is a narrative stance that has been out of fashion oooh, maybe since Nabokov, but hey, it is a legitimate authorial choice. One, ... http://www.emanating.com/wordpress/?p=61 Like all recovering academics, I know how to write a thesis statement. Mercifully, I’ve forgotten why, or maybe when. So one month in, what is it I think I’m doing here? My New Year’s project: blogging my way through Against the Day, at a rate of about 3 pages a ... http://www.emanating.com/wordpress/?p=60 It being the time it is, Iceland Spar is commonly available on the good old Internet. I bought a few “optical quality” specimens on Ebay. Perhaps after the first read-through of the book i will go back and read it again with my spar specks, and find wholly other pynchonian landscapes. Perhaps i need ... http://www.emanating.com/wordpress/?p=58 No grand vista (so much for my prediction), but we do get to Colorado, in “wind meaner than any he could remember since Chicago, full of ice crystals and hostile intent,” (p.75) and meet Webb Traverse. In a moment of felicitous synchronicity Webb tells Merle of a job for a man ... http://www.emanating.com/wordpress/?p=57 For a book that travels so far and wide, the traveling itself is strangely told. Places are not separated by the distances, at least not distances crossed. Vehicles, whose retinue includes airships, navy destroyers disguised as passenger ships, manned torpedoes that buzz Venetian canals like vespas sawing through water on ... http://www.emanating.com/wordpress/?p=56 I recently lost my dog of 11.5 years to a savage cancer that bloomed in her heart just before Christmas and took her away from us by the first week of the new year. Thus the passages on Pugnax mid-novel (550-551) are especially resonant: “Their admiration for Pugnax’s ... http://www.emanating.com/wordpress/?p=54 I was flipping through Deleuze’s books on cinema this morning, with cinema, not literature, on my mind. But this just leapt out at me. We know that there’s a connecting line between Thomas Pynchon and Gilles Deleuze. And Against The Day, like his previous novels, is at times incredibly cinematic ... http://www.emanating.com/wordpress/?p=53