Thoroughly postmodern Pynchon

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 27 18:34:01 CDT 2001



Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Pynchon does describe all sorts of things in V. and his other writings, but
> he uses words to do it, not drawings, traffic lights, body language, or
> other non-verbal means, so I don't really follow the connection that's being
> made here.  And each of P's books, essays, etc. contains only a finite
> number of words. If this is supposed to mean that Pynchon's words in turn
> somehow lead on to other words outside of his books, that seems pretty
> obvious and not terribly interesting, unless there's some further more to be
> said about it.

It's just that a traffic light or a drawing (P does include
a couple of these in V. remember) or smoke signals can work
too. Other than that, it's game, play or not to play? Or to
play and not. To play? Play and not
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See how it works? 


If you're feelin lucky
you best not refuse
its your play
the Play is your own
win or lose. 
jump on the stage
kick off your new shoes
you must be joking son where did you get them?



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