col49 2 pt2

[cj hurtt]

>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 ...

thanks. and you can call me c.j. it is my actual name even.

(snip)
>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.

never thought of oedipa/marlow. however i will bring up in a later post
oedipa/corso (main charecter from the club dumas).
the idea of pierce/kurtz is very interesting. more later after i get a
chance to think about this. slow thinker.

>
>> 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 ...