vv (11): stencilisation
Dave Monroe
davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 18 13:33:24 CST 2001
Thanks for posting this. It was indeed this very
passage that inspired my own parergonal reading of
Stencil, of stencilization. Again, it's a pleasant
surprise to see my moves anticipated to the point of
(a) finishing my sentences for me, esp. when (b) I
neglect to do so myself, and (c) saving me some waer
and tear along the way.
As I'm not online at home (a late lunch on the online
bagel shop as I debate whether to see a movie, go
grocery shopping, or to cut right to the chase and get
back to sleep), what I've been posting has inevitably
been subject to what I've remembered to, been able to
haul along. And, not having used it much, I stopped
carrying the criticism after the first several days.
That Holton essay aside (a xeroxed, indeed, a
photoelctrically stencilled copy, lightweight and
easily inserted in that enormous Sperry biography I
carried around for far too long), I think that I
conspicuously didn't rely overtly on the critical
apparatus, on Pynchonina, for the past two weeks.
And I think that McHoul and Wills are congruent with
Holton here. All three recognize that Stencil, that
stencilization, is not so easily written off, that,
for all his/its limitations, there are advantages as
well. "Micro-diversity," "polyphony,"
"poly-contexturality," whatever. By the way, Melley
evokes Luhmann as well, albeit not extensively ...
--- lorentzen-nicklaus
<lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
>
>
> "a stencil allows for repitition, reproduction if
> you insist. but, as we have
> insisted, it is within that same structure that
> difference occurs.
> stencilisation, which describes the construction of
> v., allows for a variety of
> relationships between pieces of the text."
> (mchoul/wills: writing pynchon, 181)
>
> this interpretation points out that stencilisation
> is not only a mechanism of
> historical standardization, but gives us, in its
> necessary "micro-diversity"
> (another term from luhmannian systems theory), the
> chance to read these stories
> poly-contexturally ... it's an open sculpture ...
>
>
> kfl //:: "the same is different" (rainfall
> glanville)
>
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