Coover (Deedee DeLillo)

[Cat Hamilton]

Monica,

I really don't understand what you mean by "true non-arbitraryness" or by 
"supple cohesion ordained by forces which may or may not be grasped, but 
which facillitate a sense of logical or illogical necessity..."   Could you 
please elaborate?

--Cat


>From: Monica Belevan <quodlibet at surrealestate.com>
>Reply-To: quodlibet at surrealestate.com
>To: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Coover (Deedee DeLillo)
>Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:02:28 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>Don DeLillo is not thickly evocative of anything.
>
>I have not read him much, but he is lacking in that wonderful American 
>talent for true non-arbitrariness in literature: you see it in Melville, in 
>Pynchon, in the precision of Wallace Stevens, in the character of American 
>modernists such as Ezra Pound. You see it in Pierre or the Ambiguities or 
>in Joseph Heller´s Catch-22--a sense of supple cohesion ordained by forces 
>that may or may not be grasped, but which facilitate a sense of logical or 
>illogical necessity which serves as a leading thread to narrative but does 
>not tax on the plot´s and structure´s elasticity.
>
>DeLillo is truly dense in a way that is intensely aleatory--I cannot 
>remember which book of his it was with the baseball, but in general ( and 
>gathering from mudskipping about the early chapters), the relations of the 
>book were, if not gratuitious, pretty forced into a difficult corset.
>
>Again, this coming from someone lacking in DeLillo culture, but who loves 
>Erik Satie.
>
>If that serves to my defense, alors!
>Love, Mon
>
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