Pynchon messages

[Paul Mackin]

	From the Wake List:
A quote from James Atherton's Books at the Wake seems appropriate
here:
"Joyce's creation [Finnegans Wake] is intended to present its readers
with a mystery just as insoluble as he considered God's creation to
be."


Since this is a slow day on the p-list I might as well import some wake-list discussion possibly bearing on Isaak's enquiry as to the message in V., if any. Inescapable uncertainty (pre-and post-QM) seems a plausible enough message to me. Don't know if Pynchon is a believer. Ditto for Joyce. J did shout 'Non serviam,'  the words of the fallen angel, implying J like L WAS a believer.  Anyway, it's a tried and true manner of speaking to bring God into the discussion whether one is a creationist or no.

				P.

				

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> Date:          Sun, 23 Mar 1997 15:16:46 -0500
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> From:          Ruth Bauerle <RHBAUERLE at CC.OWU.EDU>
> Subject:       qm and Heidegger in Joyce
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> True enough that the Uncertainty Principle seems to apply to FW interpretation
> and understanding.  Joyce had, however, enunciated that principle as
> early as 1916 or 1917 at the end of Exiles, where Rowan, who had been filled
> with certitude about some aspects of his life, is forced to admit at the end
> that he'll never "know" the truth about what has happened between Bertha
> and Hand.  He has the word of each as to events--but he'll never KNOW.
>         Did Joyce prefigure quantum mechanics on this?
>                 Ruth Bauerle  rhbauerle at cc.owu.edu
>