P & Ellison

[Dave Monroe]

A moment's surprise access time, so just checking in. 
As I recall, see ...

Petillon, Pierre-Yves.  "A Re-cognition of Her
   Errand into the Wilderness."  New Essays on The
   Crying of Lot 49.  Ed. Patrick O'Donnell.
   New York: Cambridge UP, 1991.

Brief review thereof at ...

http://clem.mscd.edu/~english/311g/helm.html

Anyway, Petillon's essay is a favorite of mine,
precisely for establishing a genealogy for various
elements of TCOL49 (James' The Princess Cassamassima,
Ellison's Invisble Man, Kerouac's On the Road,
Mathews' The Conversions, et al.).  Obviously a
fascination of mine here as well.  Cf. that bit from
Jules Siegel kai kindly posted about determining the
sources of Pynchon's seemingly hermetic symbolic
universe, and how they function therein ...

--- Al X <boggle_king at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I've recently been re-reading Invisible Man and,
> although once again I'm sure this has been discussed
> to death (but as Pyncon is not exactly a current
> events section we can discuss it once more),
> the similirarities are indeed striking...

Indeed ...

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