GRGR1 - Giant Adenoid

[MantaRay at aol.com]

I think the Adenoid fantasy is a highly appropriate point to begin Pynchon's
investigations into the 'black magic' of GR and the war. Check out the book
The Occult Roots of Nazism for TP's bullseye on the ether's influence over
the events of WWII. I think it throws the reader, like Mr. Kellner states,
into a world where the lines between conventional narrative and experimental
narrative completely blur: he keeps this up for 760 pages. That is what threw
me, six years ago when I first tried this book on for size, until I just
slogged through my confusion, with the help of Weisenburger's companion, this
summer. After a while, the oscillation between narrative forms grows on you
and it'll just become the natural rhythm of the book. There'a a book on GR
that asserts its structure is highly influenced and regulated by myth, the
most structured convention of all. 

David Duchovny a TPFreak? I'm in heaven. I''m still working on the Thomas
Pynchon-to-Don DeLillo-to-David Lynch-to-Twin Peaks-to X-Files theory, as we
speak. Maybe he ought to call in. 

To sum up, though, I don't think GR is a heavy read. I just think the world
is ill-equipped for an experience it doesn't have the right tools to
experience with i.e. GR. It wasn't until I put the puppeteer theory under
erasure that I could just sit down and enjoy it. I'm still trying to breathe
even now.

MantaRay
Berkeley