Novel-Gazing

[Dave Monroe]

On the other hand ...

"He felt that he had rushed through The Crying of Lot
49 in order to get the money.  He was taking no such
chance with the new book, apparently having begun it
soon after the publication of V., interrupting it to
write The Crying of lot 49.  Much of the draft was
done in Mexico.  'I was so fucked up while I was
writing it,' he said, 'that now I go back over some of
those sequences and I can't figure out what I could
have meant.'"

--Jules Siegel, "Who Is Thomas Pynchon ... and Why Is
He Taking off with My Wife?" (1977)

--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 11/14/02 6:27:51 PM,
> keithsz at concentric.net writes:
> 
> << Invisible forces, beyond the author's egoic
> intent, are at work in the creative process, taking
> the prima materia (which includes philosophy,
> history, autobiography, politics, economics, etc)
> and transforming it into something which transcends
> the working materials. An openpsyched reader can
> be taken into this force field in a way that
> transports him or her into a transegoic state in
> which new perceptual, conceptual, prenuptial, and
> voluptual capabilities are awakened. That's why they
> call it a novel. >>

Well, actually ...
 
> I would like to think that this is how literary art
> works, but I don't.  
> 
> ... a novel, a work that is the toil of, often, many
> years is, I think, far more controlled and
> deliberate in its processes ....
>
> Individual sentences, parargraphs, passages maybe. 
> But a novel of intelligence and complexity.  I don't
> think so ...

No, I don't either, but ... but, on the other hand, I
would substitute "exceeds" for "transcends" ...

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