M&D chapter 35: TRPs Phizz, POMO, and a nod towards VL

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Right on, Greg.  This epigraph leads into some meditations on
 the relation between a novel and history, and the idea that as soon as
 *history* pretends to truth it ceases to be so, is positively pomo true.
Pynchon novels are also an instance of *doing* history (and philosophy).
How neat that the conjuror here lifts the curtain in a passage
 talking about conjuring . . . .

john ( that VL admirer) m
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Greg M writes:
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>Much more interesting (to me) than some pixels allegedly representing the
>face of a "recluse" author is the true face of Pynchon THE WRITER grinning
>up out of this paragraph -- in the best tradition of post-modernism, we
>have here in a few sentences the fictional narrator (and above that, the
>author) speaking to us directly about what he's (they're) doing with this
>book...  not to mention an explanation/defense of VINELAND (the subject
>matter of which so many of you found so "trivial").
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>So there.
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