PO-PO-mo-JO (was PO's Vision)

[David Morris]

Mr. Monroe (and all),

Many times I've had difficulty reading your posts.  But this one was a prime 
exception.

Lately I've begun to wonder if Mr. Pynchon has relied too heavily on 
references to other texts at the expense of his own.  Might this not be the 
indictment of Post-Modernism in general?

My god, does TRP have a grasp of history!  His mark is almost that of one 
never besmirched by the distraction of Modernism, so immersed in historical 
allusions, almost skipping Modernism.  But might might this not be thought 
as artifice as opposed to originality?

No. It's not true!  But the charge of over-reference still echoes.  TRP so 
obviously does so indulge, even, especially, of his own texts.  This proves 
how big are his balls, I'd say.

DM

>From: Dave Monroe
>
>Terrance, might you want to fine-tune this statement of yours a bit?
>"What TRP forms is a fictional complexity that is idiosyncratic and
>cannot be understood by extra-textual reference."   Esp. as this post
>goes on to cite at length an Encyclopedia Brittanica recap of Max Weber,
>and one not long thereafter extensively extra-textually references
>Gershom Scholem's extensive extra-textual referencing of those supremely
>extra-textual reference texts of the kabballists?  Esp. as ANY
>"understanding" will, necessarily, BE extra-textual, be beyond, in
>excess of, the text at hand.  Like this post, like all the posts here
>...
[snip]
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