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Dec 26, 2022Liked by Alex Skolnick

Great article Alex. Your balanced, nuanced and thoughtful perspective on the novel, its themes and wider placement of Pynchons work in his time is especiallly trenchant. I really loved your musicians take as well, I always collapse in hysteric laughter reading the passage re Hayden’s Kazoo piece performance. I had not linked Zappa efforts with what Pynchon was attempting.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Alex Skolnick

Remarkable Alex-your intellect and keen insights into literature and art match your astounding musical prowess-kudos... respect...

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Dec 18, 2022Liked by Alex Skolnick

Anonymity, intriguing. Thank you for this, look at the size! Heard of it, shadows of the past…victims of the future comes to mind. This is cool. Great writing

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I enjoyed your article. I am just finishing Inherent Vice and I am considering trying Gravities Rainbow again, for the 3rd time. I made it to about page 750 some a dozen years ago and just never picked it up again. I found myself googling Gravities Rainbow and found your article. Having been a fan of your music for 30 years or so and a weird lover of challenging books, it was quite fun to find two things collide in your article.

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