Those Hollander Essays Again

[Otto Sell]

Could someone tell me please where the essays in question are available?
Otto

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From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Those Hollander Essays Again


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> From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 11:10 AM
> Subject: Re: Those Hollander Essays Again
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> > James Jesus Angleton?
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> > This is how Hollander introduces the CIA to his essay.
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> > This connection, one of  two key in the essay (the other
> > being Dallas)  is doesn't open the door to the JFK
> > assassination.
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> > It may seem a stretch, Hollander says, after he has tied up
> > and damned people to hell with Pynchon's novella.
> >
> > If Pynchon fears for his life and writes in code to protect
> > himself why would Hollander break the code?
> >
> > The same targets of Hollander's (not Pynchon's) essays  are
> > under attack here on the Pynchon List. Does that mean
> > Hollander is right? No, but his essays are the subject of
> > the Pynchon List again.
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> Not quite sure what the final paragraph here of your post means. Are you
> saying even though Hollander's reading--that the book is a coded
revelation
> of CIA actions to kill JFK--is a weak (though interesting) reading, it
still
> happens to coincide wtih the readings of a signifcant number of p-listers
> who accordingly tend to find Hollander an interesting topic for
discussion.
> You don't say this exactly but it might be what you have in mind. I'm
> asking. But to go on with Hollander,  the weakness of the reading for you
> would be that the  interpretation  is not justified by the words P has
> placed on the page--that such an interpretation contains too much reader
and
> not enough writer. You demonstrate instances of  misreading with examples
> such as the Varo Varro thing. With regard to p-listers who follow
Hollander
> an obvious question would be how and why they come to accept,  with or
> independently of Hollander, a Hollander-like interpretation.  Something in
> the specific p-text must be causing this. Would these readers interpret
> other swinging or cool  writers in a similar way? Is there any way to
> approach this. . Hate to say it but I just don't know.
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