version's Thomas Pynchon masterclass

[Corpsey]

I found it too cute and neat. There were things I liked in it, but it felt like an exercise or parody of something. Impressive how much he manages to compress into it, just leaves me cold in comparison to the others. A perfectly constructed little puzzle box.

It's your fourth favourite!

 

[version]

That's the old ranking, son. Keep up.

My opinion seems to change each time I read it. The last time I felt it was too neat and that the sprawl of the bigger books was partly what made him great.

 

[Corpsey]

You should read it. It's short and you might like it. And if you don't, you've at least read it and have a leg to stand on when dismissing it.

 

[sus]

The Whisper Network Electrified: An Interview with “Mike Antenna” — Cleveland Review of Books

You don’t track the truth so much as manufacture it.

www.clereviewofbooks.com

Pynchon stuff starts in the second half

 

[luka]

The Whisper Network Electrified: An Interview with “Mike Antenna” — Cleveland Review of Books

You don’t track the truth so much as manufacture it.

www.clereviewofbooks.com

@craner are you guna read this long essay Gus has written or will you pretend not to have seen it do you think?

 

[sus]

It's an interview with a confidential ex intelligence source, Mike Antenna. important reading he says a lot of smart stuff

 

[luka]

no real attempt to disguise his completely fictional status.

 

[craner]

I will devour it, of course.

 

[luka]

what i like about it is that Mike Atennae is clearly fictional, but that's not supposed to fool you. but what you might not realise is that the Cleveland review of books is also fictional and made up by Gus. no one from Cleveland has ever read a book.

 

[craner]

what i like about it is that Mike Atennae is clearly fictional, but that's not supposed to fool you. but what you might not realise is that the Cleveland review of books is also fictional and made up by Gus. no one from Cleveland has ever read a book.

Aspiring to Claremont

 

[sus]

Very rude people on this board. No manners

 

[sus]

Didnt you have mothers

 

[Clinamenic]

I have inside knowledge regarding the methodology of this interview, but I will withhold it from the the general Dissensus public primarily out of respect to the author and secondarily out of sheer sadism.

 

[luka]

i'm the only one whos read it |Gus. the rest of the people on here are monsters. wheres limburger, your so-called friend?

 

[luka]

I have inside knowledge regarding the methodology of this interview, but I will withhold it from the the general Dissensus public primarily out of respect to the author and secondarily out of sheer sadism.

given Atennae says the same things as Gus, in the same way as Gus, likes the same telly programmes and reads the same books
it's not that hard to figure out the methodology is it.

 

[luka]

 

[craner]

Very rude people on this board. No manners

I will read it, I promise.

 

[craner]

Aspiring to Claremont

This was niche, I don't think anyone got it.

 

[sus]

The scylla of being ignored and the charybdis of being made fun of

 

[sus]

I suppose there is something vaguely complimentary about being recognized. Like how every blog has one loyal hate reader who knows your style and themes better than anyone but in the service of destroying it