post- Fruedian slips

Pierre-Yves Petillon petillon at elias.ens.fr
Tue Jan 28 11:53:31 CST 1997


"C. Endicott" <cendicot at u.washington.edu>
writes (asks):

>Is it possible that spellcheck programs reveal the inherent biases of
>their programmers? I just tried to spellcheck "Reagan" and was offered:
>
>errata
>recant
>
>Hmm...

Everything does, doesn't it? (reveal....usw)
I just happen to be reading that PhD dissertation on Willa Cather.
Talks about the Frontier novel. Traces it all the way back to Cotton
Mather's MagnOlia Christi Americana.
At last, a view of wintery, typologically-exegetical New England from below
the Mason&Dixon Line!
Could that post-Fruedian slip be a first glimpse, a first foreshadowing, a
first ad-umbration of the forthcoming new novel?
        Has anybody on the Pynchon-l any clue, any sneaky preview or
fore-shadow to offer of what the book is about.
        Is it really about Magnolia?





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