"I'd rather stick to something more attainable. Like curing cancer, or eating the moon."

[larryhammer]

Department of redonklously adorkable: How mother otters teach their pups to swim. (via)

Jim Hines gives us the Spork Theory. (via)


[Poll #1579963]
---L.

Comments

[malsperanza.livejournal.com]

GR is hard going at first--like all of Pynchon's books, it takes a while to find the rhythm and get caught, but once you're caught it gets a lot easier. And it's a towering, brilliant novel. Along with "The Last of the Just" I think it's head and shoulders the best WWII novel we have. It captures not the war, but what the war did, what happened after.

And don't forget to keep an eye out for the puns, especially the line "For De Mille, young fur–henchmen can’t be rowing." Pynchon, like Melville, seems sometimes to write whole chapters for the sake of the pleasure of the game. (Cf. Moby-Dick, ch. 95, "The Cassock.")

The fur-henchmen are explained here: http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/jokespuns.htm