Slow Learner

[Daniel Harper]

Oh yeah, some of it is so evocative of Katrina that Pynchon almost seems 
prophetic.

On Thursday 26 April 2007 09:11, you wrote:
> did you think of Hurricane Katrina, lo these many years later?
>
>   Yea, nice image......what I liked most is Pynchon rejecting sex as
> mindless pleasure (the working title of GR was Mindless Pleasures), which
> shows up those who see him as so into a kind of 'polymorphous perversity"
> as one of his influences, Norman O. Brown, coined.
>
> Daniel Harper <daniel_harper at earthlink.net> wrote:
>   I finished M&D last week, and decided to read through Slow Learner at a
> fairly slow pace before jumping back into the novels. So far I've only read
> the introduction and "Small Rains", the latter of which I really didn't
> care much for at first. But going through it again this afternoon left me
> with a greater respect for the story -- it's clear that many of the
> features that we associate with the greatness of Pynchon are apparent even
> in this relatively weak story.
>
> I love the evocative use of language in the story. Probably my favorite
> image comes from page 40 of my copy: "A hundred yards away, one by one,
> like giant insects, army helicopters were taking off to see what was left
> of Creole." Not the best of Pynchon, to be sure, but a strange image that
> sticks in my mind.

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--Daniel Harper
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