Pynchon's New Book?

[bekah]

Thank you,  Ghetta - the only drawback is that "frontier" stuff may 
be too closely in line with Mason & Dixon.

Bekah

At 1:04 PM +0000 6/19/06, Ghetta Life wrote:
>Hey, Bekah, nice theory, and very plausible.  If you're correct you 
>deserve some sort of prize.
>
>Ghetta
>
>>From: bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>>
>>Has no one mentioned the Frontier Thesis of Frederick Jackson 
>>Turner? He presented his paper to the historians gathered in 
>>Chicago at the 1893 World's Fair.   Fwiw,  1890 is also the year 
>>the  census bureau declared the Frontier closed.  (The territory in 
>>what was then the US was, for all intents and purposes,  settled - 
>>there was no edge anymore, no boundary to civilization as  we knew 
>>it.)
>>
>>Turner basically said that this frontier had helped to establish 
>>American democracy and ideal and our way of life.
>>So the historians loved that and that's what was taught in schools 
>>and history departments across the US for the next 75 years or so. 
>>The alternative theory was that the American democratic spirit  had 
>>arrived from Greece and Rome somehow and was filtered through the 
>>Magna Carta etc.   Turner,  from Wisconsin (as opposed to Yale) 
>>said it was home-grown.
>>
>>Well,  then school times changed and it was kind of out of fashion 
>>to think that the "frontier" had anything to do with the 
>>development of American democracy and culture.   So. onward to some 
>>revisionist thinking until - oh - 7 or 8 years ago when 
>>post-revisionism came forth  and renewed some  interest in  "The 
>>New West" (Turner's book.
>>
>>If I was the betting sort,  I'd bet on this as a real possibility 
>>for a Pynchon tome.
>
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