col49 2 pt2

[Dave Monroe]

You've picked out some pretty interesting elements to
highlight here, C.J. (if I may call you C.J.).  Again
from J. Kerry Grant, A Companion to The Crying of Lot
49 (Athens: U of Ga P, 1994).  First off, on the radio
voice of The Shadow ...

"'The invisible effect was created aurally and
psychologically by putting Cranston's voice through a
filetr that made it sound like a telephone
conversation.'" (p. 14)

Citing p. 121 of ...

Sterling, Christopher H. and John M. Kittross.
   Stay Tuned.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1978.

But to continue from JKG ...

"A number of critics have commented on Pierce's choice
of the Lamont Cranston voice, linking the
mysteriousness of the Shadow to the ambiguities that
Oedipa confronts in the course of her quest." (p. 14)

A few examples follow, but here's the particularly
interesting instance ...

"Green's association of Pierce with Conrad's Kurtz
permits a more psychoanalytic reading: 'Pierce is
indeed a shdaow cast over much"--not to mention Mucho
...--"of Oedipa's life and over all the clues to
Tristero; but he is also, as Kurtz is to Marlow, an
alter ego to her, a shadow in the Jungian sense.'" (p.
15)

Green, Martin.  "The Crying of Lot 49: Pynchon's
   Heart of Darkness."  PN 8 (Feb. 1982): 30-8.

--- cj hurtt <cj6 at casco.net> wrote:
>
> As vampires have no reflections, but do leave
> victims, it would seem that Pierce left no aura to
> San Narciso, but did leave a lot of business
> ventures. We hear of these business ventures later

 
> I know that a lot of deep shit can be read into this
> story, but I just dig the surface story.

Ah, but I'd argue that all of this is as much "on the
surface" as anything brought to bear in reading the
novel, say, literacy, and in the English language; a
working knowledge of the operation of the technology
of the book (the sequential reading of the various
pages, et al.); some understanding--or, at any rate,
some notion--of such notions as "fiction," "the
novel," "plot," "character," "theme," et al.; and so
forth.  It's ALL "theory," "jargon," what have you,
some of it's just more naturalized for us, is all ...


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