pynchon-l-digest V2 #4272

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
Digesting here
Perhaps an attachment to P develops when we are young, if it is to
develop at all. Especially among males. Isn't Slothrop the
Ur-undergrad, beavering after mysteries with his galvanized John-Thomas
dowsing the constellations and sowing destruction? I always identified
with poor Pudding, myself, but still...
M


Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:10:34 -0500
From: Will Layman <WillLayman at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: DFW in Atlantic April 2005 Issue

Rich --

I see where you are coming from, but I can't help but wonder too 
whether our
(I'm assuming here than many of us discovered Thomas Pynchon in college

or
shortly before/after) fascination with TRP is also a remnant of that 
early
time -- a time when "getting" Byron the Bulb was a badge of honor 
bigger
than our critical judgment about whether GR was truly a great piece of
writing.  The last thing I want to do is to give up on the few things 
from
those days that I still savor and adore, but the piece shined enough 
light
on the phenomenon

> -- is it
> >> ALWAYS just a matter of time before we come to see ALL our
> attachments to
> >> art as vaguely false projections of our own self-image?
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