Padre J-Bore

[jolly]

Though American post-modernists have now seized upon Pynchon's texts with the usual hyena-like fervor of leather-boy belle-lettrists, those capable of a rational reading of COL 49 will discover that the book is in large part addressed to the sort of folly and pretentiousness entailed by literary criticism and of the  post-modernist project itself.   The mockery of literary scholarship is evident in the parodies of Jacobean tragedies, and  of Wharfinger and later  Emory Bortz,  a type of  pedantic professorial windbag all-too-common to those who have perhaps taken a few literature classes and view the cacklings and grimacings of the lit.crit hyenas with a sort of bemused revulsion. 
 
So which  COL49 character might represent the young po-mo grad. student hipster-narcissist who devotes his or her time to superficial  "quests" for literary quibbles? None other than Oedipa Maas herself, who is "unfit perhaps for marhces and sit-ins, but just a whiz at pursuing strange words in Jacobean texts. . ." (COL49, 83)
 
 
Padre J-Bore:  Oedipa est vous 
 

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