Out of the pit and into the flames...
Otto
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Mon Jul 29 02:15:27 CDT 2002
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From: "Dr. Concrescence" <dr_omolu at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 6:10 AM
Subject: Out of the pit and into the flames...
> I personally belive P's 'faith' is in his ability to
> completely and utterly enter into a POV, and become
> that POV- Which means a plunge into the nefarious
> Christian beliefs of many of his character, whether
> they be animate/inanimate or the grey automaton...
> Finding Christian Themes in Pynchon's Text is no more
> or less difficult than finding Buddhist- Hindu- or
> ancestor worshiping thematic structures- rather it
> reveals the bias of the reader or critic... I defy
> anyone to point to anything in a Pynchon text which
> does not come from a Point of View, which on
> consideration is 'Not That of The Authors' Pynchon
> Text is so embedded in an experiential gestalt of
> shifting modes of consciousness that one is hard put
> to 'rely' on the author to clue one in to the goings
> on... He deftly moves in and out of POV- That really
> ultimately one is forced to consider one's own
> experience as the guiding light- Not the author's...
>
(schnipp)
>
> Dr. Con
>
Dear Dr.
I like that . . . for example to understand Pointsman you are forced to get
yourself into pavlovian thinking and so on, but it's all just a POV you jump
in and out again, I agree. Stick to it and you're in error.
Does this mean logically that TP rejects all these POVs in the end?
Otto
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