New Member from UK

[philter52 at mac.com]

To whomsoever it may concern,
What exalted company! The cognoscenti nay the illuminati,esotericists  
all.I am 52 and have read Pynchon since I was in my 20s,reading 'V'  
first and then the UK Penguin edition of the "Crying of Lot  
49"......... . .right through  to.............."Against the Day'.Some  
Pynchon lines/words that have entered the "echo chambers of the[my]  
self"(George Steiner): "paranoid nexus","Icy Eye",'laughter no  
joke"(on the affects of cannabis inhaled by the 'Paranoids'),"the  
whole sick crew",the 'Inconvenience'...........
				Universal=Entropy.
				Particular=Paranoia
				Universal=Wonder(metaphysics-ontology)
				Particular=Mystery/Secrecy.......
				Universal=Cosmic
				Particular=Jokes,songs,cartoons.
				 
Hermeneutics..........................................................?? 
?Historicism,Scientism,Modernism,Post-Modernism...........
			As for Post-Modernism, a friend of mine said the following:"I know  
it when I see it,but cannot tell you what it is".
					The Pynchon world:paradox,our world,don't take it too  
seriously,but act as if your life depended on it.Live in spite of,  
you never know what lies beyond/nearby-Oz or an infinite number of  
worlds(logically possible along with solipsism)and dare I say it?God  
and post-irony.Don't worry it's all contextual-Pynchon,like Vonnegut  
abhors the semi-colon but not the vacuum.
									Pynchon and DeLillo,two American Masters,
												I salute you and your admirers,keep in touch,
												Regards-Phileastine