Pynchon and fascism

s~Z keithsz at concentric.net
Mon Jun 2 14:16:57 CDT 2003


>>>In my opinion, P's writing is not Analysis (a disentanglement) or
Inquiry (Resolving of problems) but a "progressive knotting into" 
oppositions, conflicts, and paradoxically sustained agons. Oedipa is
still waiting for ... she's not Oedipus Rex, the riddle solver who
solves the riddle. <<<

And discussions of his writings get all tangled and knotted into as well.
They may shoot horses, but we don't allow that here. We slowly beat
them to death in glorious messes of antiutlitarianosity.




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