VLVL2 Chapter 3

[Dave Monroe]

A perennial speculation here, apparently ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9810&msg=32061&sort=date

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9810&msg=32067&sort=date

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84429&sort=date

--- Harold Lewis <hal13 at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Pynchon write on page 26:
> "geniuses with wood who could build you anything
> from a bowling alley to a Carpenter Gothic outhouse.
> 
> Is Carpenter Gothic a reference to William Gaddis'
> 1985 novel Carpenter Gothic?
> 
> from William Gaddis: Life & Work by Peter Dempsey:
> "Carpenter's gothic mimics the grand Victorian
> style, but is built from wood rather than from the
> expensive wrought iron and stone called for in the
> original.  It is impressive from a distance, but
> when viewed close up, it is what the novel calls "a
> patchwork of conceits, borrowings, deceptions." This
> is a dark novel that offers us "a vision of disorder
> which (is) beyound any....man to put right". Once
> again Gaddis is concerned with human corruption and
> creativity gone to waste but what compels the
> reader, if anything does in this immensely
> enervasting novel, is the intricate plotting and its
> escoriating satire on religious dogmatism in general
> and absolutist thing in particular."

And see here ...

http://www.williamgaddis.org/life&work.shtml

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