Take this as you will...
Tying up loose ends.
- I am coming to class with 35 look-a-likes. That’s when you know you’ve made it. I too found the insert humorous.
- I am somewhat disappointed that Papillion, Nebraska wasn’t mentioned. I guess you’re not cool unless your hometown or hometown state is mentioned.
- Matty and I were discussing this (both of us mentioned that we have trouble finding the obvious in the book) the Kenosha Kid dies right? Barber kills him. I’m assuming so as he’s not mentioned again. Can some one put this scene in context for me? This is what I get for trying to read a somewhat segmented text “segmentally” (new word).
- Matty, I too, understand your frustration, bastards.
- My Halloween night was spent writing a paper. Sounded about as eventful as everyone else’s.
- Study session PLEASE! While some maybe great a winging test, I am not. I think a study session maybe, just once a week (I’ll host the first, root beer floats), will better prepare us for, which will be, the most challenging final of our lives. WAHHHAAAAA… WAHAAAAAAA (lights flashing and cue electricity).
- The expository writing blog is kicking our asses….
To business (after having read John’s post). I think, perhaps, we have been too hard on Pynchon. Our friend Tom didn’t write 750+ to end the novel in the manner you presume. In fact you said it yourself, symbolism. I think, as a man wiser than I expressed to me (cough… Scott) that perhaps we became so caught up in the text, trying to master its plot that we forgot to view the text as a literary one. Ask, what was this text about, why did it have an audience (and not what this text can do for you but what you can do for this text); leave your sarcasm at the door. I will be the first to speak to the texts difficulty, shit honestly, I have no idea what I’ve read (well perhaps a better idea than I presume). But the final hurrah of the text is it not another one of Pynchon’s pointless jokes (in fact, if studied more in-depth I’m sure we would find that nothing was done for the sake of pointless humor, except perhaps the puns… no I take that back). Symbolism is written throughout the final pages. What is the theater? What does it symbolize? Answer these questions.
Okay, I’m finished with my ramble, and I know Matt is probably tired of reading posts about an ending he hasn’t read. So, as I believe I have opened myself up to a great number of attacks, I’m going to go cower in house (pretend this is blue) of leaves (try to post before me…).
Matty B. (a rhyme)
- I am coming to class with 35 look-a-likes. That’s when you know you’ve made it. I too found the insert humorous.
- I am somewhat disappointed that Papillion, Nebraska wasn’t mentioned. I guess you’re not cool unless your hometown or hometown state is mentioned.
- Matty and I were discussing this (both of us mentioned that we have trouble finding the obvious in the book) the Kenosha Kid dies right? Barber kills him. I’m assuming so as he’s not mentioned again. Can some one put this scene in context for me? This is what I get for trying to read a somewhat segmented text “segmentally” (new word).
- Matty, I too, understand your frustration, bastards.
- My Halloween night was spent writing a paper. Sounded about as eventful as everyone else’s.
- Study session PLEASE! While some maybe great a winging test, I am not. I think a study session maybe, just once a week (I’ll host the first, root beer floats), will better prepare us for, which will be, the most challenging final of our lives. WAHHHAAAAA… WAHAAAAAAA (lights flashing and cue electricity).
- The expository writing blog is kicking our asses….
To business (after having read John’s post). I think, perhaps, we have been too hard on Pynchon. Our friend Tom didn’t write 750+ to end the novel in the manner you presume. In fact you said it yourself, symbolism. I think, as a man wiser than I expressed to me (cough… Scott) that perhaps we became so caught up in the text, trying to master its plot that we forgot to view the text as a literary one. Ask, what was this text about, why did it have an audience (and not what this text can do for you but what you can do for this text); leave your sarcasm at the door. I will be the first to speak to the texts difficulty, shit honestly, I have no idea what I’ve read (well perhaps a better idea than I presume). But the final hurrah of the text is it not another one of Pynchon’s pointless jokes (in fact, if studied more in-depth I’m sure we would find that nothing was done for the sake of pointless humor, except perhaps the puns… no I take that back). Symbolism is written throughout the final pages. What is the theater? What does it symbolize? Answer these questions.
Okay, I’m finished with my ramble, and I know Matt is probably tired of reading posts about an ending he hasn’t read. So, as I believe I have opened myself up to a great number of attacks, I’m going to go cower in house (pretend this is blue) of leaves (try to post before me…).
Matty B. (a rhyme)
posted by M at 7:09 AM
2 Comments:
Matt, if you don't stop using all those parentheses, there won't be any left for the rest of us. It's a natural resource, man. Respect the planet.
natural resource--funny.
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