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Nov-28-16
 | | OhioChessFan: "A bad business, opening dictionaries; a thing that I very rarely do. I try to make it a rule never to open my mouth, dictionaries, or hucksters' shops."-Flann O'Brien |
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Dec-05-16
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
Howay <Dom>! I'm delighted to see you in my forum again, believe me. I've been on a hiking vacation and I just got back, so I'll be responding anon. This can't wait though- At first I thought you were just joking with <Harry>, bantering back and forth with some good natured barbs. But this here doesn't seem so good natured to me, and it has to go: <Domdaniel: <Childe Harold> Yes, you sometimes seem to be impersonating an idiot.
And the idiot you're impersonating is ... you.
A metaphysical conundrum, nesspah?>
Somewhat off-topic= When I type "natured" the auto spell robot tells me it's an error. ??? |
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Dec-06-16
| | OhioChessFan: I suppose it's looking for "good-natured". |
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Dec-07-16
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Ohio-Autocorrect-Fan> Brilliant!-That-has-to-be-the-answer-eh? |
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| Dec-11-16 | | Geronimo: Anyone who quotes Pynchon, (Waxwing and Von Göll, I presume...), name drops Eno, back-references Duchamp, and prefers the French over the Spanish (just their openings, presumably) is alright in my book. Just so you know, a whole bunch of you're text explaining your user name from back in 2011 was atop the comments on the game of the day today. Silly me. With that extraordinary eye icon as your avatar I always thought it was a reference to dominant chess play, or that you were a dom named Daniel with dom-ish preferences when it came to other hobbies. The mind goes where it goes, eh? Cheers! |
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| Dec-11-16 | | Geronimo: *your, not "you're" dammit. |
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Dec-13-16
 | | Domdaniel: <Geronimo> Cheers.
"I was the shadow of a waxwing slain", as Vivian Darkbloom sez. You hide, They seek... |
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Dec-13-16
| | OhioChessFan: Dom it Jim, she won't make it! |
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| Dec-14-16 | | Station Radio: We watch
We wait
We never sleep
We keep our kin close
We don't do sorrys
And we never forgive
< Conn of The Hundred Battles > |
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| Dec-17-16 | | Geronimo: "...by the false azure of the window pane. "
What a demon, that guy: how many other Stately plump lepidopterists and human yo-yos failed (but then again with great consistency) to win the Nobel prize? Am I doing this right?! |
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Dec-17-16
| | Domdaniel: <Geronimo> A Pynchonista *and* a Nabokovian, eh? Remarkable. Years ago, at a film premiere, a female writer of some note addressed me as 'Geronimo' and asked me to move over.
I've never really understood why. |
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Dec-17-16
| | Domdaniel: BTW, work and other exigencies also kept me away from OTB chess for about 17 years: most of the 90s plus half of the noughties. Thus, Fischer-Dylan Syndrome: "You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way". Despite this truism, I have somehow pushed my FIDE rating up to an all-time high. |
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Dec-17-16
| | Domdaniel: <Matt> - "And the radio is full of such a lot of fools, trying to anesthetize the way that you feel..." Elvis Costello |
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| Dec-18-16 | | Geronimo: This at interest you: http://pynchonwiki.com. Great resource. |
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Dec-18-16
| | Domdaniel: <Geronimo> I was in touch with Pynchonwiki a couple of years ago - I was planning to contribute, but never got round to it. |
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| Dec-19-16 | | Geronimo: I'm an irregular contributor, but have read all of his published oeuvre (minus marginalia). Re-read Vineland this year for the first time since it came out. Must say I was pleasantly surprised that it was better than I remembered. Obviously it's more digestible than starting Against the Day again.... They're doing a DFW wiki too, but I haven't joined. Always nice to find another lover of literature. |
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| Dec-19-16 | | Station Radio: Uncle Dom
I think this may be the verse I've been waiting for. Mate, I'm as surprised as you. MISS BEE 2 U
4 Amina Jaffar Ali
The Lamb only smiled and said yes she would stop lying to her friend the Alpaca ... Just as soon as they reached the Long Lost Land of the freakin' Lamas |
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Dec-19-16
| | Domdaniel: <Geronimo> I suspect I've read most of TP's marginalia - Watts, Luddites, Orwell, the one story (Mortality and Mercy in Vienna) left out of Slow Learner, usw.
I wrote an MA thesis on Gravity's Rainbow, ca 1982. Against the Day is almost unreadable. There, I said it. |
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| Dec-19-16 | | Geronimo: Really? I love GR more than any other 20th century American novel. That said, to me Against The Day is closer to it than anything else he wrote in terms of structural complexity/encyclopedic intertextuality, and the simple beauty of his language. I loved it more than Inherent Vice, Bleeding Edge, or Mason & Dixon (though that's probably my next re-read). I think it's the only one that follows GR in its entirety, and would be the one that should win him that NP - if only he'd show up for it and not send some guy in a clown suit to sub for him.... |
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| Dec-19-16 | | Geronimo: I've read Slow Learner and Watts, etc., but I suspect there's a cushion of essays and New Yorker articles or obscure essays for Argentinian anarchist fanzines that have slipped through my net. I wanted one of those "I am Thomas Pynchon" tee-shirts that were going around about the time Inherent Vice got made into a movie, but could never score one. i like the idea that he walked around Manhattan wearing one just to @#$% with people for a day. |
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| Dec-20-16 | | Station Radio: Dom, The above might begin to make sense if I tell you it is the title to an amazing painting by my honorary niece who might well be nastiest b$$ch in the entire known Universe. She has been boarding with me for 2 months and in that time she has paid me not a bean. The Police have been around. Twice. I have caught a Mongrel Mobster in her bed and she wiped her rear end with my best white towel. I'm pretty sure you'd dig her. |
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Dec-20-16
| | Domdaniel: <Geronimo> I was full of anticipation when 'Against the Day' was published. I hoped it would be a masterpiece, a GR2. But I was disappointed in so many ways. I agree that it's the most ambitious of his later fictions, but it fails to live up to its ambition. Incidentally, I have a signed copy of Mason & Dixon. And I share a birthday with TP. |
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Dec-20-16
| | Domdaniel: <Matt Radio> I probably would. White towels are for hotel rooms. My best towels are black. |
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Dec-20-16
 | | Fusilli: <Dom> Oh, you are right. When I google "odd ball or oddball" the question doesn't even register. I get zillions of hits on "oddball" and nobody is asking the question of which one is right. I'm not a native English speaker and sometimes things like this muddle my writing. I need those editors to do their job! :) |
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Dec-20-16
| | Fusilli: I meant to post that on the kibitzer's cafe :) |
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