GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)

[Otto]

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From: "pynchonoid" <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 3:06 AM
Subject: Re: GR 'Streets' (death and/or afterlife)


> --- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> >I
> > keep seeing a 1:1 correspondence between the
> > perspective one has and what
> > one sees Pynchon saying in his texts.
>
> Every reader gets the Pynchon she wants and needs; it
> is like reading the Bible.
>

No, "anything goes" is something that has been applied to the cheap branch
of postmodernism. I have no objections to reading the Bible from a
pomo-point of view but I reject the idea of GR being "The Gospel of Thomas."
GR "has become an icon of postmodernism in literature" (Luc Herman,
"Approach and Avoid," PN 42-43, p. 10) but it's no Bible.

Otto