Rilke, GR connections

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

"Nothing. Only the balls. Their magificent arches." "Snow-Balls have flown their
Arcs, starred the Sides of Outbuildings,"  "Auch nicht die Kinder...Aber manchmal
trat eines, ach ein vergehendes, under the plummeting Ball."

One can examine the implications of M&D's divergence from the "political" text of
Foucault in terms of ontological focus, or its correspondences with such
ostensibly distant texts as those of the Roman poet Ovid and the French
deconstructionist, Derrida, or one could compare Prairie to Edmond in Lear, or
Mason to Hal in the Henrys. Although Rilke, Arendt, Foucault, seem more relevent,
they are only pertinent if they support sound arguments. Pynchon is often praised
for his irony; why not compare him to the best ironist in the language-Chaucer.
That's it I'm out of gas.

Terrance psssssss...