pynchon's style

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lorentzen-nicklaus wrote:
> 
>  lawrence c. wolfley finishes his well known article "repression's rainbow: the
>  presence of norman o. brown in pynchon's big novel" (pmla 92, 1977, pp.
>  873-889; here quoted in own re-translation from the german version in the
>  ickstadt-reader, page 224) with the following words:
> 
> . . . and pynchon
> knows that the best guarantor of this freedom is not heisenberg's
> unschärferelation, also not dialectics, but the intuitive symbolic process of
> language".

Literature performing the wish fulfillment role of dreams.

In his Sloth essay, Pynchon says about writers, "We sell our dreams".

In his Luddite essay, "... we ... turn, if only in imagination, in wish,
to the Badass --". He discusses 19th-century gothic literature and
1950's science fiction as fulfilling that wish, particularly the wish to
deny the machine its seemingly absolute power. "... we ... insist upon
fictional violations of the laws of nature -- of space, time,
thermodynamics, and the big one, mortality itself --"