re Amerikaka (P)

[barbara100 at jps.net]

Now you're dehumanizing Pynchon!  He's unsettling to you now too, so you're
marginalizing Him!  'He's only a novelist for heavens sake!'  And now you
got Davey joining in, with that 'stupid clarity' in his eyes, 'infecting'
him with your tired old 'sickness.'
I can see why you'd want to put it high up on the shelf too.  Up where you
don't have to feel him creaking in your bones (not literally, David).


----- Original Message -----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
To: <paul.mackin at verizon.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: re Amerikaka (NP?)


>
> How could anyone, for G_D's sake, take anything Pynchon says in his
novels,
> or even his blurbs, literally?  You'd have to be either a genius or a
> prophet to claim to have the TRUE DOPE on Pynchon (representing here
> "truth").  ACTUALLY, if you claimed so, it would be your own proof against
> yourself (like the drowning of a witch).  Literalism and Fundamentalism
are
> nearly the same beast:  they nueter the imagination and prop up
> authoritarianism.  The author is not G_D!  You do not know
> what/why/whom/where/when/ G_D is, "And you never will!"
>
> Dvid Morris
>
> >From: "Paul Mackin" I don't think Pynchonian writings are any kind of
guide
> >to our present actions. He's only a novelist for heavens sake. He's not
> >responsible for anything or anybody but himself. When he says, as was
> >quoted a minute ago, that world leaders have been criminally insane he
> >surely does not mean to be taken literally.
>
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