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[Dave Monroe]

To sum, is this to demand a narcissitic, solipsistic,
self-reefrential, text, "complete" in and of itself? 
Vs. one open to history, politics, culture, et al.? 
One might read The Crying of Lot 49 as a critique of
the New Criticism on this point ...

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Perhaps I'm just dull, but this seems more fanciful
> than real.  I think it's more than a quibble to note
> that the event's of the book are propelled by a 
> mystery regarding the meaning of a series of signs
> and events.  Again, I don't complain that no final
> answer is provided.  Rather that so little else 
> is provided.

Again, perhaps give Pynchon some credit here, ask, WHY
might TCOL49 be as you describe it, perhaps
purposefully so, or, at any rate, to what effect,
Pynchon's disclaimers about and seeming disavowal of
it aside ...


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