Down these mean streets ...

[Terrance]

Paul Nightingale wrote:
> 
> ... a man must walk.
> 
> Thought it was time for a new heading. Orwell as protagonist-sleuth of a
> Pynchon-text.
> 
> Terrance wrote:
> 
> > > > Inquiry,
> > > > solves problems.
> > >
> > > Inquiry might aim to address the appropriate problems (ie which
> > > questions to ask). By itself it solves nothing.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sorry, should have been REsolves (to separate (something) into
> > constituent parts) problems.
> >
> >
> Signifiers sliding all over the place. Thrown a dummy, I address
> problems. REvising, you break down or deconstruct problems. Addressing
> one problem-text we discover it signifies several problem-texts, which
> in turn signify more, and on and on, an unbroken chain of signifiers.
> Let's agree on the prosaic and the poetical (the latter signed by the
> author, whereas the former is only borrowed, or co-opted).
> 
> Hence the question of property, the textual arrangement of discourses of
> ownership. Prosaic information doesn't, not really, belong to P; he
> didn't invent it, can't lay claim to Blair-into-Orwell. 1984 is O's
> property because it bears his name. P's Foreword considers the
> historical beginnings (not origins) of the text, the pre-texts that
> carry the novel away from its owner.
 

Being a working class american all I can lay claim to is my labor. 

Pynchon will never understand, and Blair-Orwell, never understood,  the
working class. 


> 
> All texts stand in for that which is absent. All storytellers seek to
> REvisit the world and REpresent it.


This is utter nonsense, 


> 
> > Indeed, P's writing is
> > > about endless inquiry, any number of interweaved, endless inquiries
> that
> > > never reach their goal.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> I did say the inquiries never reach their goal, that is, solve the
> riddle. Oedipus thinks he knows that the fetish Freud describes stands
> in for, yes, REpresents that which has been lost. Oedipa knows there is
> no signified but only more signifiers to deny her ownership.

Freud? What fetish? 



> 
> There is no final word, of course, something the Pynchon-reader does
> well to bear in mind.

yeah, well, you don't need to read P to bear this in mind,