AtD RE: ATD Spoilers

[Jason Helms]

I'm reading (kind of re-reading) M&D right now in anticipation of AtD.  So, 
I'm not real familiar with the M&D quote, but it sort of makes sense.  My 
initial thougths would be that there are two (at least) choices when 
confronted with the whodunit in our present world (I'll avoid any "post"s to 
evade obvious chronological dilemmas).  Either take the whocareswhodunit 
approach--which I can understand Pynch and others being read as.  The only 
problem is that this questioning of the question leads to no way out (Norman 
Brownian concept).  The alternative is to find the who in the structure of 
[constructed] reality itself.  The M&D quote seems to point toward this.  
Slavery may be inherent in enlightenment society (and it would be nice to 
think we are immune, but I have my doubts).  While this provides no 
definitive "way out" it does provide an anchor for play against (in both 
senses) the system.  I think Pynch might be in this latter field, but I 
could be wrong.  In fact, I have only inferences to base it on and it could 
easily be argued that my dichotomy is a false one, Pynch simultaneously 
providing us with both options.  How does this all fair with your "pet 
theory"?  Jason




>Would be interested in yr thoughts on ...

>http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0208&msg=69706

>--- Jason Helms <helmstreet at hotmail.com> wrote:

>>I dig that Dave.  I've heard Crying of Lot 49 read
>>as the great anti-detective story (along with
>>Lolita and various works by Eco and Auster) ...

>See also, say, The Erasers by Alain Robbe-Grillet ...

>>... and think it fits.  The idea of "unconcealing"
>>is an interesting one in that it's Heidegger's
>>translation of Aletheia (Greek for "truth) which is literally an 
>>un-forgetting.  This works well with
>>the whodunits of the western canon--but I'm
>>interested in how this operates in the post/metafiction of the last 50-150 
>>yrs.  Does
>>unconcealing begin to operate as poesis?  Just a
>>thought.

>I think GR in particular might prove bountiful ground
>for Heidegger hunting ...

And maybe some bountiful abGrund as well.  Yeah, it's tough that I can enjoy 
a Nazi so much, but that Heidegger has a special place in my heart.  Has 
anything been written on him via Pynch?

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