The Quest and the Grail (or Logocentrism)

[David Morris]

>From: Paul Mackin Terrance wrote:
> >
> > If Pynchon's attack is directed at Calvinistic Determinism, [SNIP] what 
>has Pynchon to say that makes his novels any more worthy of study than a 
>thousand commonwealth or post colonial writers that make such claims? Is it 
>true what some say of Pynchon? What he has to say is less important than 
>how? Or as James Wood has claimed, Pynchon's fiction calls attention ONLY 
>to itself?
>
>Sounds like there might be an application of "the medium is the message" 
>here. Television told much the same old stories as radio and
>print before it. But the effects on culture were not the same old same
>old

If the medium is Pynchon, and the message is more-or-less the "same old same 
old" it's truly amazing how difficult it is for any individual to get his 
hands around that message, much less come to any agreement with others about 
what that "same old" message is.  Is the text ONLY a demonstration of a 
paranoid method?  Are the connections therein meant to A:illuminate? 
B:instigate? C:frustrate?  When one arrives at a "same old" message in GR, 
it never stands in isolation.  Right along side are mystery connections and 
indecipherables, which the "same old" reader may choose to pass over, at his 
own loss.

David Morris
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