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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14389b.htm

A good online resource. Of course it has a Catholic bias, but it is
informative. 


Moore's Style of Connectedness is OK, Eddins is better and see Charles
Hohmann on Rilke, although I think his reading of Rilke in Pynchon is
very messy, he is very good on the science as religion, see also
Voegelin on gnostic politics,   Hite is fine, Tanner is excellent.
Hollander on politics, family, 1960s and the Robber Barrons and John
Dugdale on same--JFK Irish Catholicism, and Hollander on Man Satire and
Theodore D. Kharpertian too. David Cowart on Music and paintings and
Opera. J. Kerry Grant's Companions are useful too even though he hasn't
got one out on GR, you get the idea that a pluralistic critical approach
and to use Moore's phrase a Both/And makes the reading more fun. Steven
C. Weisenburger is essential if you are into companions and critical
stuff and his bibliography (I think I have every book in it and I never
paid $100 for any of the out of prints or rare books, not even IG
Farben, gotta look around) is very useful (do note that his bib, which
is kinda like P's bibliography is very similar to Norman O. Browns).
Maps, yes I have the National Geographic ones from W.W.II and the old 
Baedeckers--see Plater's Grim Phoenix on the Baedecker in Pynchon).
Weisenburger has a very fine book on Postmodern Satire and "Black Humor"
(actually he says this term is not very useful) and it is very well done
as are the two books on Postmodernism by McHale. Graves, Jacobs on the
rise of american film and the german business and expressionism, the Oz
books, Marcuse E&C, Speer inside the 3rd reich, freud, jung, Upanishads,
The Prince, Waite, Malcolm X, Wadell, Eliade, I Ching feet, Nag Hammadi,
Scholam, S&M Weinberg, Gods of the North by Branston, The Christian
Calendar, Hans Jonas, Heart of Darkness, Nostramo, Secret Sharer, The
Double, Hard Times, Tannahill's Flesh and Blood, a good book on
detective fiction, Children of Fraknestein by Mulles, de Rougemont LWW,
A Broken WOrld by Sontag, Henry Adams, The Limerick by Legman,  All
Pynchon's essays are helpful, the Luddite is good for GR and M&D, I
think. Hume, if you are into chaos the like and a very far out strong
poetical reading.  E. Mendelson and the books he edited and Bloom, the
sacred and profane and more gnostic stuff. Can't forget these guys,
although I think they can make the experience of the novel almost like a
lecture on the language of the bat, Alec McHoul, David Wills.
Shakespeare--the Henry plays and the Richards are P's favorites, all of
Melville and all of Paul. 

http://www.ku.edu/~zeke/bartleby/brodwin.html

Oh, speaking of Paul's letters, eat, drink and be merry, for....



I guess Hawkes and other experimentalists are fine, excercise in
"negative capability." 

Hawthorne too: 


"Now, the wizard's grandson, the young Matthew Maule of our story, was
popularly supposed to have inherited some of his ancestor's questionable
traits. . . .He was fabled, for example, to have a strange power of
getting into people's dreams, and regulating matters there according to
his own fancy, pretty much like the stage-manager of a theatre. . .
.Some said, that he could look into people's minds; others, that, by the
marvellous power of this eye, he could draw people into his own mind, or
send them, if he pleased, to do errands to his grandfather, in the
spiritual world. . . . But,
after all, what worked most to the young carpenter's disadvantage was,
first, the reserve and sternness of his natural disposition, and next,
the fact of his not being a church-communicant, and the suspicion of his
holding heretical tenets in matters of religion and polity."






Kenneth Bolton wrote:
> 
> imagine my delight when i checked my inbox this morning to discover
> wonderful reading recommendations!
> 
> some personal favorites that may or may not increase your enjoyment of
> GR on the second take:
> 
> Italo Calvino: everything! Cosmiccomics and T-Zero are sci-fi-ish. If
> On A Winter's Night A Traveler and Invisible Cities for their textual
> playfulness. Baron In The Trees for historical fiction.
> 
> Borges
> 
> Christine De Pizane: The City of Ladies, one of the first female
> authors (I find I don't read enough females!) a book about text.
> 
> The Q and Thomas Gospels: I saw the Bible mentioned on the list, and
> agree wholeheartedly. I add these fragments, from the Dead Sea
> Scrolls, I believe, that predate the King James
> translation/interpretation by over 1000 years, and are probably much
> closer to the actual words of Iesu of Nazareth than what is currently
> taught. Note also the Catholico insistence that these texts don't
> exist!
> 
> Don DeLillo: Mao II (or, as I like to call it, The Unauthorized
> Biography of Thomas Pynchon)
> 
> Swift: Tale of A Tub and Gulliver's Travels
> 
> Homer: The Odyssey
> 
> 
> 
> okay, i gotta get some work done today.
> 
> ken
> 
> >From: "Kyle Winkler"
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: another go
> >Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 23:11:24
> >
> >hey there y'all. i am asking the people who have read GR more than
> >once a
> >question: what five to ten books should i read to make my second
> >round for
> >GR for enjoyable and fulfilling? i am thinking of things like
> >Rilke's
> >Sonnets to Orpheus, things like that....please flood my inbox with
> >your
> >ideas. the more the merrier! spanks!
> >
> >best and regards.
> >
> >
> >
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