AtD RE: ATD Spoilers

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 29 15:58:13 CST 2006


Well, I think Pynchon doesn't so much NOT care as to
whodunit, he's more concerned about whodunWHAT. 
Asking teh right questions, so They DO hav eto worry
about the answers.  I'm following Petillon et al. on
this.  Oedipa in her pursuit misses what's in plain
sight.  You might consider GR in relation to Alejandro
Jodorowsky's Holy Mountian, both in perogress at teh
same time, both released in teh same year, both
featuring grotesquerie, surrealism, social and
political satire, mysticism, obscurantism, et al., but
perhaps having teh same "lesson" in the end.   See
also Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! books, maybe. 
GR as critique of Brown, Marcuse, polymorphous
pervesity as politics, a la ...

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/eros-civilisation/preface.htm

But we're STILL dependent on slavery, or something
very close to it, its just offshore and ill-paid, is
all.  Check yr tennis shoes, yr morning coffee, et al.
 And we've our own underpaid, overwooked, permanent
underclass here at home as well, so ...

Avid fan, wish i was back in school, but ...

Well, may yet still write a little something, so ...

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

> I'm reading (kind of re-reading) M&D right now in
> anticipation of AtD....


 
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