NPPF -- no need to relate to Pynchon

[Jasper Fidget]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of pynchonoid
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:14 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: NPPF -- no need to relate to Pynchon
> 
> --- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
> > Your suggestion is that those interested in Pale
> > Fire aren't Pynchon readers?
> 
> Of course not (I don't know about the Pale Fire
> readers who aren't P-listers, of course).  I'm just
> wondering why these Pynchon readers can't make a
> discussion of Pale Fire illuminate Pynchon's works, as
> they said they would.  Nothing has been published yet
> in this discussion of Pale Fire that's been found
> inappropriate for the moderated, highly-focused
> Nabokov list -- that should tell you something about
> which forum is best suited for it.
> 
> I remain happy to see a consensus forming around the
> idea that any topic is OK for discussion here as long
> as enough of the Pynchon readers on Pynchon-L want to
> discuss it, as opposed to the focus of Pynchon-L as
> defined at http://www.waste.org/pynchon-l.  That's an
> significant shift for a handful of folks who have
> previously ruled discussion of Pynchon's politics off-topic.
> 
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Perhaps a one-to-one correspondence is asking too much in this context;
perhaps by studying *what* VN does and *how* he does it, we can come to some
better understanding of what TRP does and how he does it.  Pynchon's work is
tremendously complicated (far beyond Government is Bad or Corporation is
Evil references), and by looking at other works of similar complexity -- the
concepts and patterns involved, the means of incorporating them -- we might
discover new ways of reading TRP.  In that context it is far too early in
the discussion to begin to relate back to Pynchon; I have no doubt however
that such will take place.  This is after all, as you say, frequently, with
every other breath, like a maniac, the PYNCHON-LIST.

akaJasperFidget