SLSL Intro (A Couple-Three Bozos

[s~Z]

>>>I do not disagree.  This is partially why I rarely
actually comment on much of anything, preferring
instead to post whatever what's at hand puts me in
mind of.  But as you know, there is research, if not
necessarily to, that can be done, and that seems to
suggest, well, SOMETHING, but ...<<<

It was in the process of doing research that I got enchanted.

>Pynchon himself says no one is
> listening.

>>>Er, where, how, exactly ...?<<<

" In 1978, in what might have been a response to a
suggestion that he write his autobiography, he says:
'As for spilling my life story, I try to do that all
the time. Nobody ever wants to listen, for some
strange reason.' "
... as reported:
March 4, 1998
New York Times
Pynchon's Letters Nudge His Mask
By MEL GUSSOW
http://home.earthlink.net/~uur/mask.htm

>>>Me, I ain't much for the
mystic, but I am all about the sublime.  I think we're
talking about something similar.<<<

It's more than sublime, I think. Mystic has religious connotations. It gets
too weird trying to describe it.

>>>Only other author
I've gone even NEARLY to the trouble for is Beckett,
so ... but unlike Nabokov, Beckett, most anybody else,
with Pynchon, I constantly find myself asking, what
provoked this?  I get the feeling there's Something
being Said, and not just in some simulated,
pseudo-apocalyptic sense, although Pynchon ceratinly
has a penchant for that ...<<<

I think great artists are seized by whatever it is that seizes their
readrers when they read the product of what the artists were seized by.

>>>But, again, saying "nobody is listening" seemingly
presumes there's some "correct" or at least "better"
or at least stronger or more appropriate or ...
reading that we're missing out on here.  I'd like some
idea, at least, of what that might be.  Too much
dodging behind "those who know, know" here, methinks.<<<

I prefer, "those who don't know, don't know," but I prefer dodging and
dodgers to their less artful know-it-alls any day.

>>>Well, if you know, clue the rest of us in then.  Try.
Sometimes feel like I'm on a porchful of smug and
bitter old jazz fans or somesuch ...<<<

TRP says it's about:

"...that which had been made luminous, undeniably authentic by having been
found and taken up, always at a cost, from deeper, more shared levels of the
life we all really live."