Sympathetic Magic & Cybernetics

[Jane Sweet]

 after Sir Thomas Moore's book, *The Style Of
Connectedness* I just had to back and read Cybernetics. I've
always had this obsession with Time.  Mr. Malign has
raised the Rainbow's mysteries and magics here. 

With not much interest in what I'm quite sure is a critical
linking
chapter (linking the Crew to Fopple, for example) of the
novel V., 

and magic being the topic that Sir Moore, in his
chapter "Gods of Gravity's Rainbow," talks about most 

(his thesis being that Fowler and others have read the book
with
pessimistic and nihilistic eyes and even minds, but that the
book GR, the "prophetic" of Pynchon is none of that)

and the Connections are wonderful...

The Introduction to this book is right up my silly-cone
alley and it struck
me in that valley between the plastic humps, beneath,
below, under nature's own puny mammalians, where lies a
beating heart limping but not prostheticlally prophetic yet


(Moore's use of E.M Forster is intriguing, but I don't know
the books so I can't really say, and I haven't the Lion's
nerve to
let the Wizard give me a heart that ticks yet) 

his reading of film 

(lots of other excellent readings of film in GR, including
that POMO--

Otto I agree the Law Review is almost all POMO
critical, but all very good-- 

War and Film essay in the OCLR), 

Moore's chapters on Weber and capitalism, Character Moires,
and science

(that's why I had to get that cybernetics, think twice
before you vote anyone off this island boys), 

is very, very good and his book is original  and fresh, but
the last
chapter on the gods and magic is kinda disappointing. In any
event, here are two essays, familiar to many here, as I
recall we have discussed these and...well search under
Stonehill in the archives, or on the net--Carnival and the
picaresque.  



http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/prophet.html

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/gr/bsto.html