re VLVL Pynchon's eye for detail

[pynchonoid]

Primary, secondary, first, second, 1, 2, 1984 then 60s
counterculture...

It aint rocket science.


--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> pynchonoid wrote:
> > 
> > To be way more accurate, the novel "sets out" --
> i.e.,
> > starting in the very first line of the novel  --
> to
> > compare Reagan's 1980s America to George Orwell's
> > _1984_. P gives the '60s counterculture rebels
> their
> > due, but that comes later, clearly a secondary
> > interest for the author:
> > 
> > "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984
> [...]"
> 
> Well, as I said, the critique of the reagan-bush era
> is obvious from the
> get-go. But reagan-bush is not the target of P's
> satire. Again, I find
> it odd that readers will focus on an allusion (in
> this example, and
> allusion to Orwell's 1984) and ignore the what is
> clearly not a
> secondary interest of the author (in this example,
> Zoyd Wheeler, his
> family,  friends, & associates) and  the characters,
> plot ... the
> elements of fiction. What's odd about this tendency
> to ignore the
> stories while calling attention to obscure allusions

_1984_ is "obscure"?  Wow.


> and the like is
> that this list purports to be a discussion of
> Pynchon's works. There is
> little, if any real discussion of the works
> themselves here. The eye for
> the details obscure and cryptic is the head of the
> beholder.

I don't suppose you'd cop to posting anything
"obscure" or "cryptic" on the p-list.  Ha ha ha.


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