Osmosis & P's Gnostic Cosmoses

Paul Mackin mackin100 at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 14 12:11:17 CST 2000



Terrance wrote:

> What has all this to do with TRP and the American Novel,  I mean the girl
on the bus on her way to get a nose job,  I haven't the big dust cloud over
the
American night of a chance of guessing at, but

Not much to do SPECIFICALLY with  V.--unless one sees Pynchon and certain
other writers as going out of their way--in an above average manner--to call
attention to the groundlessness of  language and writing and meaning . . .
though perhaps, again, P has not set out to deconstruct himself (whatever we
want to call it) but that  the  kidding around  he does so much of  just
turns out to be one and the same thing as deconstruction without the fancy
clothes (again, or whatever)?

Whatever and who knows???

                P.




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