"spooky action at a distance"

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:(quite a bit of the most surprising
stuff has emerged since the
> publication of the early stories, V., COL49, and GR), but I don't
> know of any specific articles -- maybe somebody else has specific
> references?  

Well if I begin typing them up now I might have them ready
by the time W is sworn in, but I think you are correct, P
does include more on Information Theory and Macroscopic
Systems in VL and M&D, I've read some of the criticism, but
I think the beating that some of the more scientifically
enthusiastic literary critics took at the hands of the
critics that followed them, not always fair, and often too
slick for their own and their reader's good, but well...

{{{{{[[[[[[check this out, from Dave Monroe's post from 
Michael Berube, Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson,
Pynchon, and the
Politics of the Canon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1992),
Chapter 4,
"Against the Avant: Pynchon's Products, Pynchon's
Pornographies," pp.
207-66:

It is not enough, then, to say that "Pynchon champions the
preterite"
(Westervelt ["'A Place Dependent on Ourselves'"] 1980, 75);
or that
Gravity's Rainbow is written as a "sustained piece of
preterition"
(Mackey ["Paranoia, Pynchon, and Preterition"] 1981, 20); or
that
Pynchon himself is somehow preterite ... (Mendelson
["Gravity's
Encyclopedia"] 1976, 173).... "preterition" may signify
different things
in different contexts, each of which asks for relational
demarcation:
what is preterite in relation to what? (236)]]]]]]}}}}}}


 and P's own comments, have curtailed these more
scientifically based approaches and besides, P is a novelist
not a Physicist and his subject is not literary criticism,
deconstruction reconstruction pomo or mojo, but religion ;-|

 

One of our friends at one of our BFL (Big Friendly
Libraries) could probably provide a short list. If you
include Dissertations your talking about a big list. 

For example, an A-Z Bibliography of Dissertations in Irish
Literature and its Contexts c.1984-1997 would include three
Dissertations where TRP's work is named in the title. 

Here's one of them: 

Rosenberg, Martin E. Being and becoming: physics, hegemony,
art and the nomad
in the works of Ezra Pound, Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett,
John Cage, and
Thomas Pynchon, Michigan, 1990. 


Thanks for the Berube Dave, liked it much, and since I ain't
gunna read it, i really redundantly relay did like it a
whole bunch.