Intro to SL: fact or fiction?

pynchonoid pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 1 15:06:05 CDT 2003


--- Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> "We" really should try for some sort of consistency
> in these
> exigetical exercises, No? For the devil of me, I
> can't seem to
> to figure out why in one case of forewording Pynchon
> is being
> literal and in another fictitious, but then, I'm not
> a member of
> the inner party, either.

I expect that netiquette prohibits mentioning any of
those elephants in this living room, nor what they've
left on the floor, nor pointing out the actual fact of
the elephants' new clothes.

> [...] Maybe Pynchon likes these quadraphrenic
> perspectives- thinks
> they represent some sort underlying key to
> understanding the
> workings of the mind? [...] 

I expect he has a lot of fun writing these little
essays.  I'm picturing a version of cat's cradle,
where his fiction forms a dactylic structure on which
to hang the threads that Pynchon weaves through the
Intros and Forewords and book reviews and cover blurbs
& etc.



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