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Manifest

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 day, a blog every other day, or so (and today isn’t any other day, you know: a slightly possessed Chicago reminder).

Traversing the web to post irregular illuminations to Pynchon’s text.

webs that when the early daylight was right could cause you to stand there just stupefied. (p.76)

I like the image of the literary crow, that raucous, social, sharp-eyed creature of a certain subversive intelligence and particular tastes, drawn to shiny things.

I am especially keen on scientists caught in unguarded Pynchonian moments of camaraderie and geeky enthusiasm, the kind of passionate individualists Gary Larson drew and Errol Morris delights in drawing out. The web in all
its crosscurrents and blind corners is natural habitat for these rarae aves.

My growing collection of mysteries, curiosities, and odd conjunctions is housed here, for your consideration.

–SteelR

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