What does Pynchon do?

prozak at anus.com prozak at anus.com
Fri Feb 7 12:53:39 CST 2003


> Pynchon writes novels and essays that -- apart from
> serving many other functions -- call into question
> racism, imperialism, war profiteers, power-mad
> government officials, the role of science and industry
> in supporting genocide, and the role of
> institutionalized religion in supporting all of the
> above. 

I like the way he phrases it in Mason & Dixon, which could be 
described as a prime-time rehash of many of the ideas in GR: there is 
an intellectual conspiracy among us to divide everything into neat 
little boxes, and operate on those as if they were purely abstract, 
when reality itself is more complex (hence his self-dissolving 
style).

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