El Comandante Pynchon

[Ya Sam]

Thanks for directing me to the original article. This one looked like a 
translation from English, although they didn't indicate it. And I think that 
the passage with Comandante sounds cooler in Spanish.


>From: "Erik T. Burns" <eburns at gmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: El Comandante Pynchon
>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:51:07 +0100
>
>That's a nice cartoon. FYI, the article is Gerry Howard's piece from
>Bookforum in  summer 2005. etb
>
>http://www.bookforum.com/archive/sum_05/pynchon.html
>
>"And then, enter Commandant Pynchon, a one-man government-in-exile,
>rumbling down from the mountains into the capital city of American
>consciousness with something like the ultimate weapon: Gravity's
>Rainbow. Peter and I had both read V. and The Crying of Lot 49 with
>fanatic attention, reverence, and awe, and plenty of criticism to go
>with them as well. We could cite the second law of thermodynamics
>accurately; we knew that Herbert Stencil's third-person prose had been
>modeled on The Education of Henry Adams; phrases such as "the dynamo
>and the Virgin" sprang from our lips with practiced ease. Like a
>number of other '60s classics, these novels weren't mere reading
>experiences; they seemed to demand a radical change of attitude on the
>part of the reader. We tried to embody McClintic Sphere's dictum to
>"keep cool, but care"; like Oedipa Maas, we strove to find the
>resources to master our vertigo and panic over a world turned
>illegible. Among American novelists, only Pynchon seemed to have the
>resources to master the intricacies and inner dynamics of this strange
>new post-Enlightenment era."

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