Still looking for Mandelshtam. In the meantime, I offer you Book-a-Minute Classics' version of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Trust me, there are at least the following three reasons to prefer this version to the original:
- It's better written.
- It's better written.
- It's better written.
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If Gravity's Rainbow's anywhere near as unreadable as Mason & Dixon, then I think we're in debt to the good folks at Book-a-Minute. M&D was one of the only novels that managed to defeat the protestant work ethic that drives me neurotically to finish what I start. I seem to remember The Crying of Lot 49 being better, but that was almost ten years ago. Looking at its spine on my shelf now, I can see that it has at least this much going for it: it's shorter.
Humble Servant: was "Grabity's Rainbow" was a typo? If so, it's a hell of a serendipitous improvement on the original title.
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Z: if you could just focus that protestant work ethic on the pool table, I'd think twice about playing you.
Ha! It's not my ethic so much as my eye that's at fault on the felt, John.
Z
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