grgr: overcoming of metaphysics

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 27 13:10:46 CDT 2000


>From: Michel Ryckx
>
>I suppose it went like this: mr. Pynchon, sitting at his desk and having 
>read (an article on) [DM: I really Do like this parentheses] Heidegger, 
>thinks: 'Let's put a bit of the man's ideas in it.  It will confuse them 
>further and confusion is my game.'<

I would bet this dismissive projection says more about you than about 
Pynchon or GR.

>Can anybody tell me how reading/quarreling Heidegger can make reading mr. 
>Pynchon's works more interesting?  [snip] If someone can point out that 
>gnosticism/Kabbala/Heidegger and other things really has influence mr. 
>Pynchon's writings, it will interest me.  Otherwise: not.<

And of course it needn't be said that interesting you is why we're all 
here...

DM

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