Comments on: Let the Reader Beware http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/let-the-reader-beware/ falling indelibly into the past Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:44:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/let-the-reader-beware/#comment-319 KF Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:34:53 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=156#comment-319 <p>So, Penguin has now “reluctantly confirmed” the book’s title—<i>Against the Day</i>—and that the blurb was indeed by Pynchon.  So was the posting-and-removal a goof-up by Amazon (just putting the thing up too soon), or is this a Penguin marketing strategy? </p> So, Penguin has now “reluctantly confirmed” the book’s title—Against the Day—and that the blurb was indeed by Pynchon.  So was the posting-and-removal a goof-up by Amazon (just putting the thing up too soon), or is this a Penguin marketing strategy?

]]> By: Jason Mittell http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/let-the-reader-beware/#comment-318 Jason Mittell Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:27:33 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=156#comment-318 <p>And it grows murkier… <br /> <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2146152" rel="nofollow">http://www.slate.com/id/2146152</a> </p> And it grows murkier…

http://www.slate.com/id/2146152

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/let-the-reader-beware/#comment-317 KF Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:02:50 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=156#comment-317 <p>Okay, so I knew I was setting myself up for somebody to come up with a counter-example.  Yes, “lost” texts resurface, etc.  But it remains bloody unlikely, as compared with the likelihood of one’s contemporary subjects taking it into their head to produce another doorstopper… </p> Okay, so I knew I was setting myself up for somebody to come up with a counter-example.  Yes, “lost” texts resurface, etc.  But it remains bloody unlikely, as compared with the likelihood of one’s contemporary subjects taking it into their head to produce another doorstopper…

]]> By: Matt K. http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/let-the-reader-beware/#comment-316 Matt K. Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:25:11 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=156#comment-316 <p>"Oh, joy to those of you who work on non-contemporary fields; there is unlikely ever to be a new release by the authors you study.” </p> <p> Actually . . . </p> <p> <a href="http://www.tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25341-2266779,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25341-2266779,00.html</a> </p> “Oh, joy to those of you who work on non-contemporary fields; there is unlikely ever to be a new release by the authors you study.”

Actually . . .

http://www.tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25341-2266779,00.html

]]> By: incline http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/let-the-reader-beware/#comment-315 incline Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:18:07 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=156#comment-315 <p>my high school calc teacher had been a grad student about to dissertate in computer science in the 80s.  two months before his defense, he had to have emergency surgery on a blood clot in his leg, then he got some hospital infection in the wound.  it took a while to get it under control (15 years later, when i was in his class, he had to have the leg amputated anyway).  anyway, i guess by the time he was well enough to go to work, his dissertation topic was pretty much obsolete.  so he quit.  pretty sad, huh? </p> my high school calc teacher had been a grad student about to dissertate in computer science in the 80s.  two months before his defense, he had to have emergency surgery on a blood clot in his leg, then he got some hospital infection in the wound.  it took a while to get it under control (15 years later, when i was in his class, he had to have the leg amputated anyway).  anyway, i guess by the time he was well enough to go to work, his dissertation topic was pretty much obsolete.  so he quit.  pretty sad, huh?

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