maps in V. and Vineland?

[Humberto Torofuerte]

Maybe the map metaphors are Pynchonian riffs on that old Eric Bell
saw, "the map is not the territory"?

On 5/24/05, Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >Pynchon's interest in the cartographic imagination goes way beyond Western
> >conventions, and there's Vheissu in _V._ and the Native American conception
> >of the layout of the land in _Vineland_, and various maps in _Lot 49_ also
> >(one in 'TSI' too, if I remember correctly), but _M&D_ is the novel where
> >cartography per se is most prominent (of course).
> 
> Pynchon's interest in cartography is related to his interest in "mapping" in
> all its forms.  The most prominent of these mappings in his work would be
> Slothop's map, and specifically the question of its significance.  Phenomena
> are sifted through a recording system, producing a map, something readable,
> but once-removed from its source.  In Gravity's Rainbow such recordings are
> called "pornographies" and "fetishes."
> 
> Ghetta
> 
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