ATD the norse/nunatak/serpent/odialesque thing

[John BAILEY]

Maybe. I also read one aspect of the Trespassers (amongst the several
the novel creates, Iceland Spar-like) as us, as readers, making forays
into the past and bringing with us ghosts of future death and chaos -
projecting backwards, contemporary horrors carried into the past by the
fact of our reading. Our imaginary incursions having terrible effects on
the fictional past...More than other Pynchonian "They"s, the Trespassers
otherworld(or time)-liness and invisible presence seems to suggest the
ever-present invisible eye of the reader.

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From: rich [mailto:richard.romeo at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, 2 April 2007 12:51 PM
To: John BAILEY
Cc: pynchon -l
Subject: Re: ATD the norse/nunatak/serpent/odialesque thing




On 4/1/07, John BAILEY <JBAILEY at theage.com.au> wrote: 


	 
	My current thinking is that it ties in with the idea of History
narrowing to inevitabilities, always a bad thing in P's writing, a field
of possibilities always preferable to a necessity. .... there are
sometimes tiny narrow points we have to pass through, and when we come
out the other side we'll be different, or at least feel ourselves to be
entering a different landscape. You can't look back through these gates.
	________________


is this what makes the Trespassers so unsettling and shady?  that they
are looking back if not in desperation to flee the future then for some
other nefarious reason? 

rich




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