Pynchon's epideictic

[Terrance]

What does it matter who said it? I said it. There it is. 

The point is, P's epideictic rhetoric and the  P-list,  and not what you
wrote or didn't write. 


The more incoherent this kind of rhetoric becomes, the more clearly it
shows itself to be an attempt to express emotion apart from or without
intellect. At this point we enter the point of emotional jargon, which
consists largely in an obsessive repetition of verbal formulas. Not far
removed is the kind of vulgar inarticulateness that uses one word  for
the whole rhetorical ornament of the sentence, including adjectives,
adverbs, epithets, and even punctuation. 

The F-word. 

Finally, words disappear altogether, and we are back to a primitive
language of screams and gestures and sighs. 




Paul Nightingale wrote:
> 
> Read down the page (I know it's a drag, but humour me) and you'll notice
> the following giveaway line: "There's a bit of both in the Foreword."
> Sorry to disappoint you.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Terrance [mailto:lycidas2 at earthlink.net]
> > Sent: 04 June 2003 21:29
> > To: Paul Nightingale
> > Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Subject: Re: Pynchon's epideictic
> >
> > http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0305&msg=80620&sort=thread
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul Nightingale wrote:
> > >
> > > No I didn't say that.
> > >
> > > > paul
> > > > N. notes that the cover of the book reads like a movie trailer.