P's intentions? WAS Re: Walk this way

[Monica Belevan]

Yes, Phaedra, it´s fractal and pixelated--when a good writer meets a good 
reader, the relationship is established on zoom in and zoom out. And so the 
book can work in four dimensions, and the reader (and the writer himself) 
may succeed only in reading into three of themhere is always an intuition of 
the fourth--when you zoom too much either way, you can sense the image more 
than you can see it, but you can still glean a grand notion of light, form 
and function.

--Monica

>From: "Phaedra Kelly" <bluefreaky at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchonoid at yahoo.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: P's intentions? WAS Re: Walk this way
>Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 09:56:44 -0400
>
>My vision of the text is text-as-fractal.  You look at it as a whole, and 
>it's wonderfully complex.  You focus on a particular part, and its 
>wonderfully complex.  You focus on a particular part of that, and it's 
>wonderfully complex.  And so on, and so on.  And then, you switch back from 
>level to level.  No center, no bottom, just an infinite complexity of 
>meanings that in some way that I can't begin to understand rebounds upon 
>itself.  Oh, and did I mention that the fractal was moving?  And that in 
>some small way, you, the observer, changes the fractal?
>
>Actually, that's not a bad way of thinking about the world in general.  Or 
>one's life.  World-as-text, person-as-text.  The only reality being that 
>corporations rule the world, that we have an idiot/mad man as president, 
>and that the planet's resources are being depleted at an alarming, and 
>perhaps fatal, rate.
>
>phaedra
>
>phaedra
>
>>From: Doug Millison <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: Re: P's intentions?  WAS Re: Walk this way
>>Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 19:19:26 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>I couldn't agree more.
>>
>>
>>--- Otto The idea of a "bottom" or "comprehensive
>> > understanding" of a literary
>> > text is something that is rejected by postmodernism
>> > as a tool to study
>> > cultural artefacts.
>>
>>
>>=====
>><www.pynchonoid.blogspot.com>
>>
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