grgr (34): "the tower" (747)

[Otto Sell]

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From: Can't Wait <yayforgod at yahoo.com>
To: Otto Sell <o.sell at telda.net>; Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com>;
Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: grgr (34): "the tower" (747)
>Regarding 'And a soul in every stone', I have meditated all morning
>on its meaning and discovered that Pynchon did not mean One thing by
>it, but many things at once, and nothing specific.  'What's something
>real cool sounding that can be interpreted in many different ways?
>Oh here, this will work....'
m

No, definitely not that way! Writing so many years on a novel like this you
don't do things for cheap effects. What's "real cool?" and what was cool in
the seventies? - If Pynchon had written the way you think this list wouldn't
exist. You misjudge TRP and GR.

Otto
CHAIRMAN OF THE BORED

> --- Me, Myself and I <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
>
> > There is a Hand to turn the time,
> > Though thy Glass today be run,
> > Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low
> > Find the last poor Pret'rite one . . .
> > Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,
> > All through our crippl'd Zone,
> > With a face on ev'ry mountainside,
> > And a Soul in ev'ry stone. . . . (760)
> >