{"id":503,"date":"2007-03-14T20:16:14","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T20:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/03\/14\/the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-7\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T20:16:14","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T20:16:14","slug":"the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/03\/14\/the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Week 7 and our slick new server. Hopefully we’ll have a smoother ride from here on out. I’m about 20 pages behind right now, still enjoying the ride.
\nOn the thread, it’s clear that some folks are falling a little out of love with AtD<\/i>. Me, I find that when I’m reading it, the love is still there. It helps that I’m a Merle Rideout fan, so I was delighted to see his return. Still, when I’m not reading it, it doesn’t linger in the brain or call to me from wherever I dropped it last. So the trick is mostly getting myself to pick the book back up.
\nI do keep puzzling over these racial\/ethnic stereotypes. More than anything it feels like Pynchon’s just screwing with us — trying to get a rise out of his readership. He’s got my buttons pretty well configured so far. For example, every time he says the word “invisible” I twitch. Likewise for “explosion.”
\nOn the pro\/anti-Traverse(seses) debate, I’m with Andy and Cap’n M. in that they’ve started to really grow on me. They’re certainly the most human characters in this crowd.
\nA few random questions: Anybody have a clear sense of what year we’re in now? How old Dally is? What was in that tunnel with Dally and Frank? Mebbe these all become clear in the last 20 pages of the week’s reading, but if not, and if you have a theory, shout out.
\nIn other news, Steve Evans has once again come through with helpful notes on last week’s reading<\/b><\/a>.
\nTuesday 3\/20:<\/b> A good chance for folks to catch up, as we’ll be doing a relatively short week. Let’s meet at the bottom of page 373, where “we’re already ghosts.”
\n(which is to say: please use this thread to comment on anything up to page 373. Aim to get near that target and add a comment by end o’ day next Monday)<\/i>
\nPugnax!
\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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