98% Pynchon Free

[Terrance]

Terrance wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of which, please post some more large tracts
> > of your favorite authors other than Pynchon -- really
> > big ones (I mean really big passages of text).  I like
> > it best when they don't have any apparent connection
> > to Pynchon, it's more intriguing to ponder the mental
> > pathways you might have followed in juxtaposing the
> > selected texts with the current discussion threads
> > here on PYNCHON-L. And be sure to jumble them together
> > and remove text formatting to make it more fun to
> > read!
> >
> > Thanks a load,

The authors I quoted include: 

Pynchon, Emerson, Melville, James Wood, Patell, Tony Tanner, Norman
Fischer, F.L. Baum, Orwell, Dr. Suess, John Donne, Terry Gilliiam &
Monty Pynchon & Co. 


If you can't figure out the connections, Doug, that's because you're not
trying hard enough. Well, you should figure out the Pynchon to Emerson
connection cause it goes to your post on RWE's Birthday and Vineland.
Emerson is also the subject of Patell's book on Emerson, Pynchon and
Morrison. And this book is also being discussed here.  Melville is
compared with Pynchon by Wood in his Broken Estate, a book also
mentioned today.  Tony Tanner provides a counter example and an essay on
Emerson to boot in his book, much better than the James Wood book,  it
is called The American Mystery, Norman Fisher's essay is a fine essay
and it is included in the Oklahoma City Law Review and in the essay
Fisher discusses M&D and dissident republicanism. My copy of the review
was given to me by Charles Hollander and the excerpts from Emerson go to
his essays. We are currently discussing Orwell. John Donne's notion that
no man is an Island  is a renaissance idea that Mason and Dixon witness
the tolling of and Emerson and Whitman sing their Songs for and Dr,
Suess is, as a matter of fact my favorite author next to Terry Gilliam
and the MOnty Pynchon crew. 

Why the thoughts you be thinkin
bout habeas corpus and Lincoln 
if you only had the balls

--Baum