Difference between revisions of "User:Sideming"

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A partial newbie to Pynchon:  I've read ''GR'' 3 times, ''Crying of Lot 49'' twice, Vineland once, got halfway through MD (the mechanical duck found my off switch) and have never, can you believe it, never read ''V''.  
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A partial newbie to Pynchon:  I've read''GR'' 3 times, ''Crying of Lot 49'' twice, Vineland once, got halfway through MD (the mechanical duck found my off switch) and I am now a third of the way through ''V.'' and my second round of AtD.
  
 
An economist by training, my current interests are Sanskrit/Jyotish and Proust.  I also have an MDiv -- but do not practice.
 
An economist by training, my current interests are Sanskrit/Jyotish and Proust.  I also have an MDiv -- but do not practice.
  
 
Si_de_ming is my Chinese name from college, when I studied the language.
 
Si_de_ming is my Chinese name from college, when I studied the language.
Though I myself am not Chinese.  For the exact reasons Pynchon mentions in AtD, my nickname was "Mr. Death."  While the characters for "4" and "death" are NOT (despite what's said in AtD) the same, the pronunciation IS -- and my Si (not Spanish si)is yet another meaning.
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Though I myself am not Chinese.  For the exact reasons Pynchon mentions in AtD, my nickname was "Mr. Death."   
  
The Japanese picked this up from their Chinese cultural infusion of Kanji.
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I am becomming ever more to seeing AtD as a modern day alchemical work -- something like a more understandable ''Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.''

Revision as of 11:39, 31 July 2007

A partial newbie to Pynchon: I've readGR 3 times, Crying of Lot 49 twice, Vineland once, got halfway through MD (the mechanical duck found my off switch) and I am now a third of the way through V. and my second round of AtD.

An economist by training, my current interests are Sanskrit/Jyotish and Proust. I also have an MDiv -- but do not practice.

Si_de_ming is my Chinese name from college, when I studied the language. Though I myself am not Chinese. For the exact reasons Pynchon mentions in AtD, my nickname was "Mr. Death."

I am becomming ever more to seeing AtD as a modern day alchemical work -- something like a more understandable Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.

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