PN 40-41

[Doug Millison]

Just got my copy of _Pynchon Notes 40-41_.  So many interesting-looking
articles -- on GR, Vineland, COL49 --  it's hard to know where to start.
Once again I'll encourage you all to get this issue (info at
http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html).

Charles Hollander's article "Pynchon, JFK and the CIA:  Magic Eye Views of
_The Crying of Lot 49_" alone is worth the price of admission.  He makes a
bold claim ("To study _Lot 49_ is to decrypt Pynchon's encoded messages and
enter split-level consciousness, to read the narrative against the subtext
of historical allusions, to find how skepticism toward government is
central to Pynchon's work. When we do, we find Lot 49 to be Pynchon's
encrypted meditation on the assassination of President John Fitzgerald
Kennedy.") and he backs it up with a detailed reading and prodigious
research. Highly recommended.

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