maps in V. and Vineland?

kent mueller artkm at execpc.com
Tue May 24 20:46:21 CDT 2005


Whoa, Eric Bell? Then he copped the quote from Count Alfred Korzybski,
father of General Semantics and a bit of a nut in the style of Wilhelm
Reich...

Where did Eric Bell use it? Curious.

Kent Mueller
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> From: Humberto Torofuerte <strongbool at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Humberto Torofuerte <strongbool at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:28:35 -0700
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: maps in V. and Vineland?
> 
> 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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