GRGR(30): You will want cause and effect.

[desert search for techno allah]

Paul Mackin writes:
>So here's my question: Is GR ever boring enough to be postmodernist. I'll
>admit it may be tedious, and fatiguing, and incomprehensible. But are
>there ever passages in the book that could be thought of as a downright
>assault on the reader? I don't think I experience it that way, at least
>not enough of the time to matter.

When I read _V_, my first Pynchon, I thought the Herero sections were
eminently boring. After reading other Pynchon, though, I suspect I
would find them simply tedious. I don't find any of _GR_ boring -
it's sometimes tedious, but there's always something interesting
there. And as I reread, less of it seems tedious.

In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four.
If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually
one discovers that it's not boring at all but very interesting.
                - John Cage


Josh

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