Pynchon's New Book?

[James Kyllo]

Still playing here, we can connect in the Hilbert/Göttingen angle via
Mary Frances Winston Newson:

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/newson.htm


James

On 6/20/06, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>


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