post- Fruedian slips

[Andrew Dinn]

Pierre-Yves Petillon writes:

> 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?

I would have thought marginalia more likely. All the stuff never
elected to the main body (politic) of the text, not even worthy of
serving under heel as a footnote but blackballed to the preterite
margins. Our man knows that's where the most interesting conjectures
and last theorems (eschatology, Mr Fermat) are scrawled in minute
hand, eschewing explanation ostensibly for lack of space but we (who
know) know the real reasons.


Andrew Dinn
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