Pynchon's "Pornographies" ...
Thomas Eckhardt
uzs7lz at uni-bonn.de
Fri Oct 6 14:07:30 CDT 2000
> ... the "falsity" of Pynchonian pornographies lies not in their rituals
> of dismemberment but in their fetishistic reassemblies, not in their
> cutting up of organic (w)holes but in their recomposition of inorganic
> wholes that fetishize the very idea of organic wholes.
Wish I had been able to think of this myself. "Fetishistic reassembly" of
the dismembered god/human/world... This is very helpful. Thanks.
Thomas
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