pynchon-l-digest V2 #3806

[David Christensen]

Well here I go.

Gravity's Rainbow seems as relevant and also timeless in its evocation of
the "they" as when it was first published.
Its fundamental concern with the complexity of paranoia and the trajectories
of power for me basically wipes the floor with the french
post-structuralists such as Foucault. Not that I am unsympathetic to the
Foucaldian sense of power.
I guess within the satire, the real and the surreal Pynchon creates a
miasmic sense of what it is to live a life. With all its confusion, clarity
and randomness.
The entropic metaphor is of course a key.

If any social scientists out there or general readers want to pick up on a
scholarly take on this. "Lost Geographies Of power" by Allen is a academic
human geography/ sociological/ network theory text that 30 years later
delves into theory and its purpose in order to understand power.

I just get the feeling that hey, novelists like Pynchon always do reality
better in their fictional worlds.

Really quite bizzare for many to contemplate.

But hey if every one got Pynchon, if some of us became true acolytes it
maybe would dissolve under its own sense of un-preterition
before the critical mass succumbed to its own entropic will.

 My wish, my command; what is solipsistic existentialism any way but a
combative response against disparity.

Connections rule. We are ruled by connections.