Osmosis & P's Gnostic Cosmoses
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Dec 17 09:29:34 CST 2000
Otto Sell wrote:
>
> Otto sez:
> . . . and all that religious, esoterical, symbolical, technical,
> psychological, ethnical, historical, opera, theatre, cinema blah blah blah
> in his books . . . all approaches to P.'s texts you named are covered by
> deconstruction and logocentrism, but every "single" approach misses the
> point.
What is the point?
Let's try to get a simple point first.
No, no one will play this game with me I'm sure, but why
not...are you so sure it's all indeterminate play,
subversive postmodern fable, deconstructed deconstructed?
What are all these Jewish characters doing in V.?
Why would a kid from the gold coast know so much and write
so much about things Jewish?
He sure as hell didn't pick it all up working on one of his
old man's road crews in Rachel's Five Towns neighborhood.
Although he obviously got some of it from doing so, He
researched it. For starters, P has the read the bible, not
as much as Melville I suspect, but he knows it chapter and
verse. He's also read a lot of Catholic texts, I doubt he
read these in the Wittgenstein, I mean, philosophy
department at Cornell.
So, here, take the current chapter, Rachel is paying for
Esther to get a nose job. Why?
Deconstruct this!
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