hi!

[Eleonora Lacorte]

Il giorno 28-05-2002 18:10, John Bailey, johnbonbailey at hotmail.com ha
scritto:

wow "there is bread for my teeth!".....a good way to say I have things
enough to work on....


> On the critical front, perhaps try...
> Ames, Sanford. "Fast Food/Quick Lunch: Crews, Burroughs, and Pynchon." in
> Literary Gastronomy. David Bevan, ed. Rodopi Perspectives on Modern
> Literature. Atlanta: Rodopi, 1988. 19-27
> 
> with a possible sidetrip to...
> Jenkins, Ron. "Systemic Waste and the Body Boundary in Pynchon's Fiction."
> Pynchon Notes 28-29 (1991): 91-110
> 
> ...because, depending on how much space you've got to work with here, the
> relations between what goes in and what comes out are pretty important in GR
> (and I suppose M&D), and you might want to consider the relationship.

I think that what comes out is almost AS important as what comes
in...sometimes more (mostly in GR)....
> 
> Less critical but more appetising may be...
> Don Anderson, ed. Banquet of the Mind: Stories of Food and Feasting, Wining
> and Dining. Random House Australia, 2000
> which is a collection of novel excerpts which deal with, well, eating, and
> so on. Supposed to be read over a good meal, although one review recommends
> against this during the Pynchon section, the barf banquet bit from GR.
> reviews at...
> http://www.usyd.edu.au/publications/news/2K0406News/0604_banquet.html
> http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/May00/ind.html
> ...though I don't think it was published internationally (and I haven't seen
> it locally either).
> 
> and in a similar vein...
> The Sun & Moon Guide to Eating through Literature and Art
> is a collection of original recipes solicited from famous writers,
> celebrities, politicians etc, as well as excerpts from previously published
> materials and some nice art to boot.
> review at:
> http://www.sunmoon.com/various/sm_eating.html
> As far as I can tell, the Pynchon involvement is limited to the inclusion of
> the English Candy Drill scene.
> 
> I have yet to come across anything which recognises the love of food which I
> think is evident in Pynchon's work. The excerpts mentioned above do evoke a
> visceral, sensational response, but in my opinion at least they have to be
> considered alongside some of the rich, almost aromatic language used
> elsewhere to describe food in a less nauseating way.
> 
 I think Pynchon considers food as the basis of being human...the quality of
the food and of its description depends on what kind of human it
represents...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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