AtD / TRP / feminist type stuff

[terrance terrance]

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>I doubt I'd be interested in any feminist readings, either,  they get a 
>little strident sometimes and lose the general sense of a work to some 
>infinitesimally small speculations.   (Are there any feminist readings of 
>Pynchon? - serious question).    I've never been seen myself as 
>particularly "feminist," anyway - I  get stirred once in awhile but it's 
>not a way of life.

Pynchon books are easy to write about. He's kinda like the old wide world of 
sports. He spans the globe to bring you the agony and the thrill of 
complexity. As we stand here typing, students round the world are hard at 
work chipping away at yet another esoteric reading of some obscure corner of 
Pynchon's globe. Feminists and Marxists, New Critics and Old Critics, 
Freudians and Jungians, Post-Structuralists and Post-modernists, Da-Daz and 
Ta-Taz and Blah-Blahs all have there day. How Pynchon is related to the 
whore. How Pynchon is related to the War. How a post-lost-paradise-foundism 
informs the dialectics of under the rose rosey noseisms in Echo, Zappa and 
Pynchon. And so it goes. Read tons and tons of it. Some good. Some not so 
good.

V. is a lot of fun.  Not worth reading 4 times, but nothing much is. 
Aristotle? Yeah Aristotle can be read everyday. Unless you prefer a good 
great religion book like The Anatomy of Melancholy or The Old Books about 
Moses and Jesus.



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>  Fwiw.  I'm far more interested in just understanding a bit more of the 
>basic plots and an outline of some of Pynchon's themes and their 
>connections in specific books as well as in his oeuvre.  I need to reread 
>the books themselves for that,   Vineland for the 3rd time, GR,  M&D and 
>AtD for a 2nd (they are big honkers),  TCoL49 for a 4th.   ( I usually get 
>kind of burned out on a book after a 3rd reading,  there are very precious 
>few which have stood up to more than that for me.)   And maybe I'll have 
>time for V. also,  it sounds pretty interesting on the surface and there's 
>usually a lot more going on beneath the surface in a Pynchon tome.
>
>Bekah

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