architecture WAS Re: GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb

[Doug Millison]

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I read and enjoyed _The Architecture of the Jumping Universe_ a 
couple of years ago, good illustrations too. Lots of emphasis on 
organic forms from nature.

I wonder if any of the P-list architects can tie this discussion back 
to GRGR or other Pynchon novel?  Architecture does appear to be one 
of Pynchon's cultural concerns -- in the Rocket City passages, in the 
Mittelwerke passages, etc. It seems almost as if Pynchon, as he sat 
writing GR, was able to anticipate some of the PoMo architectural 
theory, even as the novel gave critics a model to ground their new 
speculations about fiction/reality.  The notion of ruins and 
simulation (I think that was the buzz word) was a big one the year I 
hit Paris for some schooling back in the late '70s -- there was a 
plan on the table to build a park containing some pre-fab ruins, on 
the site of the former les Halles market, that received a lot of 
attention that year -- and that always makes me think of Enzian's 
illumination regarding ruins and the War as architect.
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