AtDDtA(15): A Space No Longer Entirely Readable

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/6/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Except for Max Weber, most Pynchon scholars explore few if any other
> sociologists who might underpin Pynchon's vision.........
>
> But he seems to have also read Durkheim..."Sacred and the Profane"
>
> And I made a wiki post on one whose key overarching notions regarding
> "modernity', his specialty, is that modernity
>
> 1) takes away our natural "place' in the world  and
>
> 2) dislocates our sense of time!......'unstuck in time', Billy Pilgrin,
> Slaughterhouse-Five

URL?  But now I gotta read Durkheim.  Me, I'm convinced that Pynchon
read Mario Praz's The Romantic Agony pre-V., or was at least familiar
with a significant aspect of the li'trachure covered therein ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0104&msg=54587

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0104&msg=54593

I don't know that i'd go so far as to claim a direct Jamesonian
influence on Pynchon, but, then again, the paper that nucleates the
book, at least, has been widespread and well known for two decades
now, and it's not as if Pynchon doesn't get a little light raeding in
from time to time ... but he's definitely part of the moment that
Jameson describes (see also Wm. Gibson, who I supect indeed has read
Jameson) ...

This reminds me, though, a couple of favoriote moments here, Keith's
trainspotting the similarities between The Chymical Wedding of
Christian Rosencreutz on the Lepton Castle episode of M&D ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9801&msg=22977

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9801&msg=23125

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=65349

I personally think Frances Yates' The Rosicrucian Enlightenment might
have been req.reading for M&D as well ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0202&msg=65028

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0203&msg=65347

... but my OTHER favorite obs. here was on Franz Fanon's Black Skin,
White Maks vis a vis Gravity's Rainbow ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9905&msg=37825

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0008&msg=48748

Thanks again, Keith, Thomas ...