GRGR(10) - Plasticman

[rj]

> Roots run deeper than words, 
> or so think I.  Words are by their nature "loosey-goosey."  Philosophy also, 
> though I welcome them both.  Pictures speak....  Icons speak...  
> Abstractions too.
> 
> "Frames" hold onto loosey-goosey-ness, but they are only tools.  They must 
> not become our masters.

But it *is* in the framing of text as fiction or non-fiction, truth or
make-believe, that such mastery is manipulated.

Pynchon is certainly iconoclastic in this respect, in breaking (or,
appearing to break) "across the interface" of textual narrative. In
other words he aspires to operate in a realm beyond the "frames" which
traditional criticism and theory have imposed on reader expectations.

There is a political/philosophical grounding to all this later on within
the narrative of *GR*, in the NTA section, where the transcription of
the oral languages of the steppes leads to the first 'Kill the Police
Commissioner' graffito which then leads to the killing of the Police
Commissioner.

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