DeLillo/Wallace/Ellison

[Dave Monroe]

Yeah, I've read the Seed book, even have a copy, which
was no mean feet at the time I went looking for one,
but, as far as I'm concerned, it's most valauble for
that letter from Pynchon on his research for V. ...

But if only WE look, cf. "this public secret" ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0208&msg=69706

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72631

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0209&msg=70538

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0108&msg=58847

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0108&msg=59073

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84682

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0311&msg=87452

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0410&msg=94132

E.A. Poe's "The Purloined Letter," Henry James' The
Princess Cassamassima ...

--- Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:


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Thanks. I alreday knew Petillon's essay, but I'm very
pleased with the link to the old thread "If only she'd
looked". I hadn't read that thread before, but it
certainly struck a chord in me: I'm just finishing a
chapter on The Crying of Lot 49 in my dissertation.
The title of the chapter? "If only she'd looked"... 

The Harrington book - 'The Other America: Poverty in
America' - is great stuff and it certainly seems
likely that Pynchon read it prior to writing Lot 49
and GR. Petillon uses the Harrington book in his essay
from 1991, but three years prior to Petillon's essay,
David Seed mentioned 'The Other America' in his
chapter on 'Lot 49' in 'The Fictional Labyrinths of
Thomas Pynchon'. Seed, by the way, didn't think too
much of this important sub-theme in the novel. About
the lyrical passage on pp. 179-80 in the novel, Seed
states: "the passage includes too many images of
drifters, squatters and the poor". Apparently he
prefers his Pynchon novels to be free from annoying
human waste, and he relegates these human rejects to
the margin of his interpretation, just as Oedipa
relegates them to the margin of her quest.

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