Pynchon's New Book?

[bekah]

And then we could add the Pragmatists.    Peirce and Dewey and James, 
et al?  Not to neglect Oliver Wendall Holmes.  (see Louis Menand's 
The Metaphysical Club - good book)  Wasn't Rockefeller (Sr) setting 
up the
U of Chicago about that time?

And as long as we're playing here,  let's put that architect Frank 
Lloyd Wright in there.  New Visions.  New West.  New Crime (Big Jim 
Colosimo)  and  lots of immigrants (Greece, Norway, Italy,  the US 
South) to work in the stockyards and meat packing  and railroads 
(and Pullman and his town) for Sinclair to write about.

LOL.  This could be a fun book what with everything, including the 
river,  changing course - or trying to,  like swimming up river for 
some of them, though.

Bekah



At 12:33 AM +0300 6/20/06, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:
>Is it too obvious to mention that it's also the
>paradigmatic time and place of American naturalist
>fiction, what with Dreiser, Norris, Sinclair [who
>really was a Utopian, though] etc?
>
>Then again, Pynchon is neither a Utopian nor a
>naturalist, but like Musil (and unlike those no-
>bullshit guys Broch & Gaddis), a "possibilitarian".
>Instead of a Sister Carrie, await a Sister Curie...
>
>
>Heikki