Hegel's laughing

[Michel Ryckx]

miriam fernandez-santiago wrote: "I have been doing some research on
Postmodern humor n Pynchoh´s work and I do not think his laughter is
nihilistic at all, like Hegel´s. I´d rather say it is a kind of third
dimension which escapes the dialectics of thesis/antithesis.  It is the
option which is not in the chart, the non-visible window: just another
thing.  Political, social or other purposes that laughter might have,
are added purposes, but not essential to laughter."
Miriam

You may be right, but I've always been thinking that the humour mr.
Pynchon's uses is related to the way the French Fifties author Boris
Vian uses humour: absurdly funny and.  Could it be mr. Pynchon is
familiar with his work (I haven't got the faintest idea wether he is
known in the States)?

Kind regards,
Michel.
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