Pynchon's New Book?

[bekah]

Bingo!  So we've got the plot down.  Who's gonna write it up?  (lol)

Bekah

At 7:41 AM +0100 6/20/06, James Kyllo wrote:
>Still playing here, we can connect in the Hilbert/Göttingen angle via
>Mary Frances Winston Newson:
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>http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/newson.htm
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>James
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>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
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>>
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>>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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