cookin colons with gas

[Terrance]

Eulenspiegel7646 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> lycidas2 at earthlink.net (Terrance) wrote:
> 
> "I never hesitate to indulge in reading Pynchon with the bible and all
> manner of religious texts  close to  hand. His Muchness is our
> narrator and his knowledge of biblical/historical events  is surpassed
> only by the author's.  Although tempting, reading this passage as a
> statement by the author, above and beyond the narrator, I submit, is a
> mistake. Several critics have done just this. But why?  There is
> nothing in the text, as far as I can tell, to justify this.  There are
> times when Pynchon addresses the reader directly, he comments on Wicks
> or on Wick's tale, but this is not one of them. This is Wicks and we
> can't simply discount the biblical allusions of the Reverend.
> Maybe I'm misreading you here?"
> 
> Ummmm--it's a possibility
> 
> --Bugs Bunny

Ahhh, He's not in this stove!

  --Bugs Bunny		

"Ay, so he's hidin in the stove, eh?"

   --Paddy the Cartoon Cop



> 
> "The Cross and the Virgin  in Pynchon's V. is replaced by the Dynamo
> (we
> can attribute this directly to P's reading of Henry Adams--
> 
> 'As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines , he
> began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much
> as the early Christians felt about the cross.'
> 
> "Adams, continues to be, the most important text for understanding
> Pynchon."
> 
> Lose the commas, dude!

There are no precise rules about punctuation (Fowler lays out some
general advice (as best he can under the complex circumstances of
English prose (he points out, for example, that we posses only four
stops (the comma, the semicolon, the colon and the periods (the question
mark and the exclamation point are not, strictly speaking, stops; they
are indicators of tone (oddly enough, the Greeks employed the semicolon
for their question mark (it produced a strange sensation to read a Greek
sentence which is a straightforward question:  Why weepest thou,  Lear;
(instead of Why weepest thou, Lear? (and, of course, there are
parenthesis {which are surely a kind of punctuation making this whole
much more complicated by having to count up the left-handed parenthesis
in order to be sure of closing with the right number (but if the:
parenthesis were left out, with nothing to work with but the stops, we
would have considerably more flexibility in the deploying of layers of
meaning than if we tried to separate all the clauses by physical
barriers (and in the later case, while we might more precision and
exactitude for our meaning, we would lose the essential flavor of
language, which is it wonderful ambiguity))))))))))). 


Huhuhu he said colon. 

This is the  most excellent foppery of the world. 

		--Lear