animals in M&D

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

"Don't think I am taken in by stories I have heard
I just read the New York Times and swear by every word." 

Right, It's O.K. to be a Luddite, but Pynchon is no
Luddite,  "Pynchon is not, in the end, the perfect Luddite.
In the later days of the rationalist dispensation he must
make especially cogent the anti rationalist case, but he
does so less as a mystic than an apologist for balance."
>From his wonderful essay "The Luddite Vision: Mason & Dixon. 

Cowart gets it right in his first paragraph: "Pynchon has
devoted his formidable powers of subversion and satire to
exposing the false premises behind the technocratic
syllogism." Balance, YES! Apologist YES! He's right on. My
only complaint is the Postmodern, matanarrative crap that
nearly derails this essay. The Robert Frost wall is
beautiful stuff, really creative, the stuff that keeps me
reading critics when, as all these suggested readings remind
me, I have better things to read.


PS When Pynchon Pandora opens the jar the first two to
escape are Prometheus and Voltaire. M&D.372
TF 

David Morris wrote:
> 
> The voice of a true Luddite.  Unfortunately, the apple's been bit, Pandora's
> opened the box, and there ain't no going back.
> 
> An aquaintance of mine thinks he's got a better idea for the human race:
> Let's design one w/o an asshole.  No shit.  Eating will be a thing of the
> past.  Sex too, probably.  Whatever CAN be done WILL be done, Amen.
> 
> >From: "Richard Romeo"
> >
> >again, science is fooling around with things it shouldn't--giving humans
> >enhanced memory will destroy imagination--we'll all wind up like Hal in IJ.
> >More is Less
> 
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