A Soul In Ev'ry Stone

[David Casseres]

Mike sez

>Maybe the poles of this list are ( i.) those of us for whom TP's writings
>are, primarily, a literary incandescence and (ii) those of us for whom they
>are a cultural/political one.  Often we find congruence,  but sometimes not.
>Those of us who link TP with (eg) Gaddis, Delillo, Nabakov... and those of
>us who put him with (again eg) Lenny Bruce, Chomsky, Gramsci...   I am not
>trying to say that we separate neatly into two camps, but the poles are
>magnetic and exert their pulls and there is no compromise, no static point,
>we tend, actively,  to move in one direction or the other.  
>What you think?  

I think yes, but it's complicated because I find myself in both camps, 
often at the same time.  I take my own opposition to Capitalism As We 
Know It so much for granted that when I hear about it from Pynchon I say, 
well sure, cool, man oh man can that guy write.  But if I step back a bit 
I do realize that he offers me new and powerful insights, as well as the 
literary incandescence.


Cheers,
David