Paranoia......

[Jan KLIMKOWSKI]

Mat Jacobson wrote:

>Our interpretations of experience, and texts, are "stencilized" by our own
>viewpoints, informational patterns, etc.  What we "see" exists because we
>see it, not because, necessarily, someone intended to put it there.


Not necessarily indeed, but what we "see" may still exist because someone 
intended to put it there.  Of course each and every one of us "reads" a 
different text each and every time we pick up GR....  But this denial of 
artistic intention can go too far.  The genesis of some of the most 
startling artistic effects can be pure accident, but the artist recognized 
these effects at some point during the creative process and left them in the 
work, (intentionally, if you want).

And contra some earlier posts, I think the historical period in which GR is 
set is not arbitrary.  As McHale and others have stated, the Zone is a 
wondrous PostModernSpace; as somebody whose father was a child DP from 1940 
onwards, there is of course no doubt  that the Zone is also a real 
historical space to which Pynchon the artist is attracted for a variety of 
reasons, and personally, I'm mighty glad he was....

Andrew adds:
>TO assign intention to the "Writer" is Paranoia.

To assign no intention to an artist is Anti-Paranoia.  Check out Molly Hite.

jan