COL49 _Courier's Tragedy_

[wood jim]

> 
> Absurd, yes. But not so much "absurd" as in Beckett
> or
> Ensslin's "The Theatre of the Absurd" as "absurd" in
> "The Evil Dead" or "Re-Animator". Not aesthetics of
> reduction here but aesthetics of surplus, so to
> speak,
> and this is valid for all of Pynchon's writing. 
>

Agreed. A wonderful post Robert. 

"The style may be absurd, self-indulgent, and
sensational, heaped with similitude, word-play,
proverb lore, and unnatural natural history, but is
almost always sustained by a magnificent sense of
extravagance and fun." 

			Joycelyn Powell, "John Lyly and the Language of
Play" 

In the sixties the former situationist Constant
defin-d Homo Ludens as the successor of Homo Faber,
the working human. He saw the beatniks, hipsters,
rokers, stiljagi, etc. as an avantgarde of the new
creative human.

http://www.euronet.nl/users/jasmine/root/ABG/homoludens.html





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