Kinbote, Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

  pynchonoid wrote:

>Interesting how Heikki and MalignD both default to the
>same specious Kinbote comparison -- "one of a kind,"
>you might say, to use a phrase somebody used here
>recently.
>

Whoever said Doug was "one of a kind" (me, I think) of course hadn't 
heard Martha Stewart yesterday describing the her current situation and 
that of her company.  The reigning queen of total denial.

> I do like being able to relate the works of
>art that I enjoy to daily life here on the planet
>Earth even if that is apparently a detestable practice
>in some circles. I've never quite understood how some
>readers reach the conclusion that Pynchon -- or any
>other writer -- doesn't reflect the lives we lead
>outside of books; perhaps if somebody patiently
>explains it to me, I'll get it one of these days,
>simple country boy that I am.   
>

Instead of explaining it to you here are two words you might want to 
plug into your favorite search engine: apollonian; dionysian.

P.