100 arabian nights and 1night

[David Casseres]

That's why they are on the same coin.  Opposite sides, for me, because
of their completely different ways of telling the story.

On 9/20/06, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Why opposite?
>
> They're both using myths and fairytales for their writing.
>
> 2006/9/21, David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com>:
> > As John Barth tells us, the Arabian Nights tales (I've only read
> > childrens' versions) are seminal to all modern story-telling.  See
> > Chimera and The Last Story of Somebody the Sailor.  If there were no
> > connections to Gravity's Rainbow, it would be surprising, but I'd like
> > to hear more about the connections you see.  I think of Barth and
> > Pynchon as opposite sides of a post-modern coin.
> >
> > On 9/19/06, bob mccart <lebishar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I may be hoping, but am I the only one to see connections between arabian
> > > nights tales and Gravity's Rainbow. Sure there's the connection of bigness,
> > > of crudness of drugs but what I think is intersting and maybe even useful is
> > > the way Pynchon and the Night's authors both get at things by telling two
> > > stories with similar themes. I havnt read much of the nights yet, but
> > > there's certainly bits where two different stories are about the same thing,
> > > just as in GR there are those two sections right next to each other that
> > > seem different yet you're sure Pynchon's getting at something in a
> > > subliminal surreal way. This sounds terrible when I write it. But anybody
> > > read some of the tales?
> > >
> >
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