Authorrheal in Tension/Re: Welcome Sunday!

[Elainemmbell at aol.com]

Barbara (real or imagined...given the absence of witnesses at The Party, I 
guess your three-dimensionality is still somewhat suspect, but your picture 
of Doug's house was so Déjà vu charming [as in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young] 
that I choose to believe in you) and everyone else...

Thanks for asking for my ideas about Our Author's notions of preemption but I 
must demur.  The reason I joined The List is that I am decidedly rusty on The 
Master and picked up M&D this summer only to find myself mired in confusion 
with no one to talk to about it (certain topics tend to clear a room; for 
non-fans Pynchon exegesis is one of them!)...I hardly dare make statements 
about where P stands until I am a refreshed reader (ph after Slow Learner?) 

But I stand strong by my peace plan: 
if Pynchon/Barthelme/Kafka/Barth/Sartre/Hawkes/Mishima/Rushdie/Rimbaud/and 
throw in Louise Gluck for good measure could be gathered together (or 
reincarnated as necessary), locked in a sealed room and be forced to remain 
there until they could agree on ANYTHING--during which time NO violence would 
take place ANYWHERE--then we, our children and their children would 
undoubtedly live long and peaceful lives.  For that matter, the group of us 
could probably be locked into a room under the same conditions with the same 
effect!  Anybody up for it?  (The potential antimilitary might of literateurs 
is sadly undervalued these days!)

Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
(860) 523-9225
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