GRGR(4)KK and "enthymeme"

[Doug Millison]

At 12:59 PM -0400 6/17/99, Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:
>Tough to do in GR, but easy enough in say "TSI." Every name, every place,
>allusion etc. can be decoded. And I think the easiest way to get a handle on
>TRP's Baedeker tricks and such is to decode the SL stories. Doing so is
>fun and
>since Pynchon, like Joyce, for example, opens from his early works, such
>decoding
>can be a flashlight in the sewers and not simply a YoYo ride on the shuttle.

Terrance thus sums up the two dominant views of GR, and TRP's work in
general, as expressed here on Pynchon-L -- those who would deny the ability
to find any ultimate meanings in TRP's novels (the yoyo ride), and those
who find such meanings (the flashlight in the sewers). So many of our
discussions here go in that loop. My reading of Pynchon tells me he's doing
more than giving us sophisticated jerk-off stimuli.

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