VLVL Is it OK to be a misoneist?

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 04:12, lorentzen-nicklaus wrote:
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> > I don't know how it
> > falls out in his reading public at large but here on the p-list down
> > through the years P's  often been taken as authoritative on real world
> > events. All I can say is that I do not hold such a view. Just out of
> > curiosity does anyone else agree with me? 
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> ° Somewhere in "Minima Moralia" Adorno says that Proust spares the reader 
> the illusion to be more intelligent than the author. For Proust this is,
> I think, correct. With Pynchon I don't know. Do agree, however, that this
> here shouldn't be the Friends Of Tom yet the P-list, which of course implies                     
> to question our writer's authority. In artistic as well as in other regards.
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There are different kinds of intelligence. P seems tops in

--absorbing into his brain and notebooks a huge quantity and variety of
text unknown to many of us

--processing the above into new text that singes our eyebrows 

Don't think we have enough information to know how good he would have
been as a social critic or historian. Suspect quite good if he'd set his
mind to it. (which I don't think he's ever going to do)




> Just to get this straight: Myself I couldn't have written Gravity's Rainbow.

Me neither.

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> Orange sunshine, time to read ... Heidegger lectures from the winter semester
> 1929/30 (just got published in paperback: costs you less than 20- !): "Die
> Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik: Welt - Endlichkeit - Einsamkeit". Profound
> phaenomenological analysis of Boredom (nah, it's not only 'objective'...), 
> among other stuff on animals, stones and everything. 500 pages of Heidegger 
> in full juice: Check it out! "Die Langeweile ist der Bann des Zeithorizontes,  
> welches Bannen den der Zeitlichkeit zugehörigen Augenblick entschwinden lässt,
> um in solchem Entschwindenlassen das gebannte Dasein in den Augenblick 
> hineinzuzwingen als die eigentliche Möglichkeit seiner Existenz, welche 
> Existenz nur möglich ist inmitten des Seienden im Ganzen, das sich im Horizont
> des Bannens gerade im Ganzen versagt" (p, 230). There-Being is always tuned.
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> You know, I'd like the coming 'Hilbert Novel' to be somehow like CoL 49: 
> sinister and short --

Hope it comes soon. 


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