Ash Wednesday

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: Ash Wednesday


> On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 13:54, Dave Monroe wrote:
> > Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism,
> > Thisism, Thatism, isn't it the most?  All we are
> > saying ...
> >
> > --- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
> > > To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 7:53 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Ash Wednesday
> > > >
> > > > Communism, Nazism, Freudianism, vegetarianism,
> > > > sexism, antidisestablishmentarianism, post-
> > > > modernism.
> > >
> > > Didn't you forget capitalism and liberalism?
> >
> > Or, for that matter, plain ol' jism ...
> >
>
> And what about critijism?
>
> Excluding Pynchon critijism of course.
>
>

I haven't protested against your inclusion of postmodernism in that list
although I cannot see the binary opposition(s) it necessarily would have to
rely upon if it should belong to that list.

But regarding critijism of course there are the binary oppositions of text
and world, book and reader, reader and author. Insofar I cannot exclude
literary critijism (actually I'm beginning to like this neologism).

Let's not forget that Bible exegesis, the reading of "holy" texts in
general, is the beginning of literary interpretation; maybe the cycle closes
here.

Otto