Official Pynchon List Quote Of The Year 2000

[Paul Mackin]

Thanks, Dave. Haven't read Purdy but have heard of him.  He was reviewed in
NYRB at about the same time as the Eggers book was--the two in contrast to
each other as I recall. Am familiar with a short article by Habermas about
the modernism/postmodernism controversy. Think Terrance might, probably
does, agree with Jurgen's viewpoint.

By the way I hope nothing I've said might lead to the conclusion I'm against
irony.  Couldn't exist without it actually. Or that I have any dreams of
Consensus. No, that would fly directly in the face of a strongly held
devotion to the doctrine of Original Sin.

Anyway, thanks for the recommendations.

                P.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Monroe" <monroe at mpm.edu>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: Official Pynchon List Quote Of The Year 2000


> Mr. Mackin, meet Messrs. Habermas and Purdy.  Paul, Jurgen, Jedediah ...
> recommended (well, not so much the Purdy, if at all, but ...) reading
> for you, Paul ...
>
> Habermas, Jurgen.  The Theory of Communicative Action,
>     Volume I: Reason and the Rationalization of Society.
>     Trans. Thomas McCarthy.  Boston: Beacon, 1985.
>
> Purdy, Jedediah.  For Common Things: Irony, Trust and
>     Commitment in America Today.  New York: Knopf, 1999.
>
> To quote a coworker, mackin', snackin' a-and packin' ... let me know ...
>