SPHERE to Eternity

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

I agree with rj here, I think. GR is so huge that it becomes (almost)
the sort of unstructured stimulus that so excited Geza Rozsavoglyi away
back at on page 81.  If you will all forgive the simplified
punctuation, here goes---  "The basic theory is that when given an
unstructured stimulus (...) the subject will seek to impose structure
on it.  How (the reader) goes about structuring this blob will reflect
his needs, his hopes -- will provide us with clues to his dreams,
fantasies, the deepest regions of his mind.(...) But with the
projective technique nothing he can do, conscious or otherwise, can
prevent us from *finding what we wish to know*." 

We can't help exposing our selves in the discussion.

We impose our own structures and meanings onto/into a massive dense
text.  IMO it is never safe to assume that the echoes we hear were
scripted, precisely, by TRP. His text establishes an ambiance within
which the echos become audible.

--- rj <rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote in response to doug:
(snip)
> I think Mr Pynchon is
> accessible to the general reader. He or she can participate without
> having to run to a library of criticism to explicate the texts. I
> don't
> think it's helpful or accurate to characterise Mr Pynchon's work as
> mysterious and ultimately incomprehensible, as if it were some
> esoteric
> gospel.
(scroll and snip)
> Your distinction between the "average reader" and "experts and
> specialists" is exactly the false dichotomy I have been addressing.
> Every "average reader" is an expert and specialist in their own
> right.
> Mr Pynchon's texts are models of interdisciplinarity, so an architect
> or
> theologian or musician or rocket scientist *can* bring their
> expertise
> to the text. But what Mr Pynhcon also writes about is life, history,
> society, and that is something where there are no experts and
> specialists. We are all "general readers" 
(scroll and snip)
>  When are these "echoes" simply voices in our own heads?

Mark

P.S.
The pagination effects Doug dismisses ring true for me.  I feel that
apogee for the text is ignition for slothrop.  Brenschluss is at the
terminus of coitus with "round and moaning Magda."
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