Pynchon's epideictic

[David Morris]

If the concepts cannot descend to the common plane, through common language, 
they are too rarified for common usage.  Pynchon would never abandon the common
realm.  It is his life blood.

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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. 

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