COLGR49: "ha, ha"

[Dave Monroe]

By the way, see here ...

Heise, Ulrika K.  Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative,
   and Postmodernism.  NY: Cambridge UP, 

Chapters not only on Cortazar's Rayuela (Hopscotch)
and  Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, but Robbe-Grillet's
Topology of a Phantom City, Beckett's How it Is,
Brooke-Rose's Out, an epilogue on Sterling's
Schismatrix.  And thanks to whoever mentioned ...

Meikel, Jeffrey L.  American Plastic: A Cultural
   History.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1995.

The last bit is on GR, beginning with Gore Vidal
calling Mr. Pynchon's Wild Ride (among other works)
"American plastic," of "floculant appearance,
something opaque, creamy and curdled, something
powerless ver to achieve the triumphant smothness of
nature."  The words "eminently" and "deconstructible"
come to mind here, but ...

--- Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:
> 
> As for "Pataphysics", this is also an important
> point of reference in Julio Cortazar's "Rayuela".
> One of the greatest novels of the last 50 years IMHO
> and recommended reading for everyone who enjoys
> reading Pynchon.

And I'll second that motion ...

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