Some Remarks of a new Subscriber.

[David Morris]

Thoroughly Modern Michel,

Good first post.  I too sometimes find these lit-theory angles tedious and 
most often circumventing the text altogether.  I'm more interested in WHAT 
Pynchon is saying rather than HOW, but I have to admit Pynchon is often a 
sort-of show-off: "Look Ma, no hands!"  His gymnastics do call attention to 
themselves.

I too was taken by GR by the end of the first page (Summer of '83) and kept 
reading w/o having any idea how this wild ride was going to mesh together.  
Like Enzian searching for a key to the text, I keep trying, and am rewarded 
with small flashes now and then, but the Kirgiz Light still eludes.  The 
P-list, and this GRGR have been very helpful.

Welcome, and keep posting,

David Morris

>From: Michel Ryckx
>
>Since this is the very first time I took the effort in subscribing to an 
>Internet list (which makes me feel really modern), I have been reading some 
>May month messages.  I was struck.  Do not take yourselves (and some 
>theories) too seriously.  Just enjoy the reading.  Pynchon is, after all, a 
>very funny author.
>
>The theories of post-whatever may apply or not (and I've always had very 
>strong doubts about their value; since Hegel became popular in the 1930s in 
>France, that dark Prussian ambitious angel has caused a lot of harm to 
>French philosophy), I have the impression that some of your discussions 
>seem to stress the importance of the methods used to explain.  If those 
>methods do not clarify a text, then put them in a dustbin.
SNIP
>GR was the first novel by mr. Pynchon I ever read.  I was hit from the 
>first phrase on.
>Michel Ryckx.

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