Is this Pynchon-L or Nabokov-L? WAS Re: Was Reading and discussing Pynchon's texts

[Otto]

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Subject: Re: Is this Pynchon-L or Nabokov-L? WAS Re: Was Reading and
discussing Pynchon's texts


> --- Otto:
> > 2. What bothers you, Doug? You're the one with the
> > most NP-input on this
> > list, which is a discussion list for literature.
>
> That depends on your definition of Pynchon-related, of
> course.  Pale Fire is Pynchon-related, sure --  o is
> this morning's newspaper.
>
> I'm still curious why you are so quick to abandon the
> discussion of Pynchon's Foreword and move on to a
> novel by another author.
>
> =====
> <http://www.pynchonoid.org/>
>

1. Your contributions to the list prove the relevance of newspapers every
day (see James Kyllo's post).

2. I really believe that we've talked enough about the most interesting
parts of the foreword without going deeper into Orwell. Another proposal of
course would be a reading of "1984."

3. I've finished the "Cryptonomicon," but I'm not ready for DFW's "Infinite
Jest" yet.

4. With Nabokov we can be sure of real quality until Pynchon's Hilbert-novel
comes out, and I'm not quite sure anymore if I really want to do "Vineland"
under the present  government.

5. Doing a little research on the Zembla-site this evening "Pale Fire" seems
to be interesting enough.
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/zembla.htm

"(...) in Alvin Kernan's words, that "everything in the `plexed artistry' of
the novel seems to lead on to everything else and to tease us with the
possibility of a completely articulated structure which if understood will
allow us to fly through the barrier of the text into a meaning beyond."
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/boydpf1.htm

6. Do you really have to make the threads so long?

Otto