VLVL(6) "conditionally become Frenesi" 199.16

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Fri Dec 11 15:55:55 CST 1998


>At 09:02 PM 12/8/98 -0800, Doug Millison wrote:
>> I do find it interesting that [Pynchon] plays with this notion
>> of looking through a work of art to find the artist, but maybe
>> he's only using it for irony:....
>
At 3:20 PM -0500 12/11/98, Peter Petto wrote:
>I'm not sure what you're saying here.
>
>Does an art aficionado expect to see the artist when looking at the art?

Some critics look to the art for clues about the artist, similar to the way
that Prairie thinks she is able to learn something about Frenesi by
watching the films that Frenesi made.

-Doug




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