Pynchon and fascism

Michael Joseph mjoseph at rci.rutgers.edu
Wed Jun 4 13:10:05 CDT 2003


sounds sexy...


> Dangerously close to Descartes...
> V.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Joseph
> >> Many of us do this all the time, and, in fact, haven't many folks on
> this
> list, I'm thinking of Malignd, Pynchonoid, The Great Quail, chosen names
> that deliberately imply at some level they are characters within a
> fictive
> world governed by a belief in the archetypal insights of Thomas Pynchon,
> and that list discussion constitutes some kind of an improvised
> participatory fiction that emulates intrinsic values within the
> exemplary
> fiction of Thomas Pynchon? One could actually analyze list discussion
> within a fictional context, although we are not explicitly writing
> fiction. I guess I'm wondering why you think a consideration of the
> Introduction in a fictional context should wait until kind of fiction
> can
> be conclusively determined or that Paul N. needs to even have a kind of
> fiction in mind.<<
>
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