DeLillo/Wallace/Ellison

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Fantastic set of links, thank you. 
I now realize that I "Get" Vineland on account of being so close to the blowtorch of change described in that book. Within my lifetime, including the years of Oedipa's awakening. I know (and have lived) a fair chunk of America's Third World experience. 

Somehow, I still detect John Dee at the bottom of "Trystero".
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From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> 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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